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#32 Extending ispell feature to comments
I don't know how much of a performance hit this will
occur, but a suggestion has been made to extend the
ispell functionality that's available in the story
editor to the comment editor as well. I am therefore
formally making this request here. If no one on the
team has the time to do it, but the idea is acceptable,
I have no problems with working on this myself and
submitting a patch.
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Seeing as how it was my rant which caused this request (all
information at
http://slashdot.org/~AntiFreeze/journal/15793\), I hereby
offer the following: I am more than willing to write a perl
script which takes text and finds and highlites (by adding
bold tags, or some predefined $tag) the misspelled words
within that text. I know nothing about Slash (never looked
at it) so it would be left to someone else to incorporate my
code into Slash if you thought it would be worthwhile.
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My guess is that the load on the server would be significant.
Maybe this can be a plum ...
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How about putting it into the preview page for just journals
to begin with? That way you can guage what kind of a hit it
might make to server performance. Also, this gives you the
added benefit of being able to say: "Well, if you really
want slashdot to spellcheck your comments, just preview it
in your journal before posting it." I know a lot of people
who would be quite content with spell checking in journals
if spell checking for all comments was unimplementable for
performance reasons.