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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Bonk on April 01, 2009, 07:43:48 pm

Title: PHP 5.3 to drop Pspell extension
Post by: Bonk on April 01, 2009, 07:43:48 pm

Grrr. They are replacing it with something called enchant (http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/)? A library that is part of the Abiword project. I see no mention of a binary distribution.

Does IE have a built in spell checker yet?

I ask because there is no talk about using enchant instead of pspell over at simplemachines (and I won't say a word there, they get nothing, ask jay about my "spam" - pompous ar... I'd probably even consider writing the code to replace pspell with enchant in SMF, but noooo posting a record of anything there is considered spam, they do not actually want information... totally missed the wave...)

ancient history... anyway...

Be prepared for the Dynaverse.net forums to drop the built-in spell checker in the near future, and if IE8 does not have spell check, then start asking MS for it.

Title: Re: PHP 5.3 to drop Pspell extension
Post by: toasty0 on April 01, 2009, 09:29:57 pm

What would be cool is to develop an IE addon that leverages the rebust features of the MS Word dictionary.

Title: Re: PHP 5.3 to drop Pspell extension
Post by: Nemesis on April 01, 2009, 10:04:19 pm

Quote from: toasty0 on April 01, 2009, 09:29:57 pm

What would be cool is to develop an IE addon that leverages the rebust features of the MS Word dictionary.

Or a Firefox addon (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/breaking-internet-explorer-81-eagle-eyes-leaked/)

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In this article, we take a closer look at the new features of Internet Explorer 8.1, compare it with other browsers and share with you our first-hand experience with the browser. Overall the browser is faster, more flexible, more stable and also more secure and performs already much better than a recently released IE 8. One word sums up our experience with IE 8.1: Eagle Eyes is the browser that Internet Explorer should have brought on the market a long time ago - and now it’s finally here.

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Firefox Extensions Support

Eagle Eyes’s most exciting (and highly anticipated by developers) feature is its wide support of Mozilla-based add-ons. Though IE 8.1 duly notes that not all plugins will work perfectly, we have tested four popular Firefox plugins (Firebug, Web Developer, Tab Mix Plus, and No-Script) and they worked flawlessly (some of the developers even claim that – in terms of performance – they work much better under IE 8.1 versus Firefox 3).

Title: Re: PHP 5.3 to drop Pspell extension
Post by: Bonk on April 01, 2009, 10:25:34 pm

Um ok, but php really is dropping pspell. I just happened to post it today, like my other posts today.