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I received an anonymous donation to the Speller Pages project and wanted to say thank you! The development effort is fueled by users' support in any form, whether it's a donation, positive feedback, or even reports of problems or bugs. I hope to devote more time to the next major release of Speller Pages soon, but in the meantime thanks for all the support.

Speller Pages 0.5.1 includes fixes for a couple bugs that were reported a long time ago. Both the bugs have to do with apostrophe problems. Please check out the change log at the bottom of the release notes page (http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=250016) for more details.

Version 0.5 is released with a fix for a long-standing issue: now it doesn't blow up if it encounters non-ASCII characters. Now, any non-ASCII character entered will be converted to Unicode and handled gracefully.

Of course, remember that words with non-ASCII characters will probably show up as "misspelled" or perhaps alltogether ignored by the spell checker depending on the language used (by default en_US). But at least now the spell checker doesn't come to an awkward halt if it encounters such characters, so you can spell check "around" them. ... read more

Visit the Speller Pages "Files" page at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86602 to download Speller Pages 0.4.1.

Speller Pages 0.4 allows you to check the spelling of any number of text inputs on an HTML form, not just one. Version 0.4.1 includes the Perl/CGI version in addition to the PHP version.

Also available is an updated technical requirements docuement that explains how to build a 0.4-compatible server-side script. https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=20403&group_id=86602

Speller Pages 0.3 has now been released!

NEW IN THIS RELEASE

- Added Close button
- Added Undo button
- Enabled double-click on word list
- Fix substrings caught as misspellings bug

Download it on the Files page: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86602

A new technical document (https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=20403&group_id=86602) outlines how to plug a new server-side spell checking script into Speller Pages. It demonstrates the interface between the server code and the client code, and explains how the server script exercises the JavaScript wordWindow object's interface to integrate with Speller Pages UI.

A few interface improvements will be implemented in version 0.3. The improvements are meant to make Speller Pages faster and easier to use, while allowing for the recovery of input errors.

In 0.3, there will be two new buttons arranged on the spell check window: the Close button and Undo button. The Close button terminates the spell checking, applying any updates that had already been made to misspelled words. The Undo button reverses the previous ignore/replace command; back to the very first command if need be. Finally, the other interface enhancement is the ability to double-click a word in the suggestion list to make a single replacement. ... read more

Speller Pages 0.2 is now available for download, with a new PHP version in addition to the Perl CGI.

Visit the Speller Pages "Files" page at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86602 to download it and integrate spell checking into your HTML forms.

Please let me know if you have any requests for enhancements or if you discover a bug. You can view and submit bugs and RFE's at the SpellerPages Tracker page: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=86602

Speller Pages 0.1 (Alpha) is now available for download! Visit the Speller Pages "Files" page at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86602 to download it and integrate spell checking into your HTML forms.

Please let me know if you have any requests for enhancements or if you discover a bug. You can view and submit bugs and RFE's at the SpellerPages Tracker page: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=86602

A demo is now available, hosted by http://www.netjs.com! (www.netjs.com!) See the demo at http://www.netjs.com/speller/

Please let me know if you have any requests for enhancements or if you discover a bug. You can view and submit bugs and RFE's at the SpellerPages Tracker page: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=86602

Speller Pages is a Web user interface and JavaScript library for a server-side spell check program currently in development. A Perl CGI program that exposes the functionality of the Text::Aspell module and aspell will be included along with the client-side code and UI.

Using Speller Pages, Web site developers can use straighforward and configurable JavaScript to present a clean, robust user interface for spell-checking textarea inputs in HTML forms. Speller Pages brings the power of spell-checking engines like aspell to the Web, with UI that is uncommon for Open Source JavaScript-based spellcheckers. The user will be presented with a window that includes two adjustable frames: the contents of the textarea in one and controls to replace, ignore and review suggestions in the other. As the user evaluates the words that were not found in the dictionary, the word being evaluated is highlighted in the frame that includes the contents of the textarea. When the user is complete, the original textarea is updated with any changes. ... read more