Have you settled on a webbased email that your going to use, or are you going to write you own?
I am very familiar with the phPOP code, and and getting up to speed on Aeromail (which I think should be your best option).
I would like to add spell check to whatever prog you go with.
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Well, based on the differant (email) programs that I have checked out, Aeromail looks like the best bet.
If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, please, let me know of what would be better. But, for the most part, I think Aeromail is the "offical" email system of webdistro.
If you would like to add spell checking support that would be GREAT!
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2000-06-18
The only problem with server side spell checking would be the time it takes to post for each error. What about having a php script that handles spell checking and creates a javascript array for each potentially misspelled word from which it can draw a list of alternatives. We could then use (Javascript 1.2) regular expressions to do the replace (even globally). We could even use phps soundex function to do a "sounds like" list for words that arent in our dictionary. I havent used that function, but it seems like it could be a powerful tool. We could use a popup window for the spell checker and use that cool little piece of javascript that I used for the popup addressbook to control the main windows text from the spell check window.
I dunno...what do you think?
Brian
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I havent thought out the way this would work at all, so I will take your ideas and see whats possible. I did see one webmail prog that had a popup spellchecker in javascript, so I planned on looking at the code and seeing if its copywritten or what. I dont know about the legal issue of copy someone elses javascript, so iw ill aviod it if the code is not open sourced, or if I cannot get ahold of the author and have them open source it.
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Well, as far as licenses go. Please, only use open source apps.
As far as how it would work, you got me. Thats why I never dove into creating it :)
If you use javascript, try to make a way for non-javascript browsers to use it. Even if its a poor way of doing it, this way the'll think of getting a browser thats supports it, or enabled javascript. I know a good number of poeple that leave js turned off. (and they wonder why most pages won't work :)
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Have you settled on a webbased email that your going to use, or are you going to write you own?
I am very familiar with the phPOP code, and and getting up to speed on Aeromail (which I think should be your best option).
I would like to add spell check to whatever prog you go with.
Well, based on the differant (email) programs that I have checked out, Aeromail looks like the best bet.
If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, please, let me know of what would be better. But, for the most part, I think Aeromail is the "offical" email system of webdistro.
If you would like to add spell checking support that would be GREAT!
The only problem with server side spell checking would be the time it takes to post for each error. What about having a php script that handles spell checking and creates a javascript array for each potentially misspelled word from which it can draw a list of alternatives. We could then use (Javascript 1.2) regular expressions to do the replace (even globally). We could even use phps soundex function to do a "sounds like" list for words that arent in our dictionary. I havent used that function, but it seems like it could be a powerful tool. We could use a popup window for the spell checker and use that cool little piece of javascript that I used for the popup addressbook to control the main windows text from the spell check window.
I dunno...what do you think?
Brian
I havent thought out the way this would work at all, so I will take your ideas and see whats possible. I did see one webmail prog that had a popup spellchecker in javascript, so I planned on looking at the code and seeing if its copywritten or what. I dont know about the legal issue of copy someone elses javascript, so iw ill aviod it if the code is not open sourced, or if I cannot get ahold of the author and have them open source it.
Well, as far as licenses go. Please, only use open source apps.
As far as how it would work, you got me. Thats why I never dove into creating it :)
If you use javascript, try to make a way for non-javascript browsers to use it. Even if its a poor way of doing it, this way the'll think of getting a browser thats supports it, or enabled javascript. I know a good number of poeple that leave js turned off. (and they wonder why most pages won't work :)