bpedwards
Mar 31, 2010
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EPiServer 6 – It’s 2010 and I can’t check my spelling!

So with the release of EPiServer 6 and all it’s advancements comes the news that spell checking is handled by your browser, great news if your using Firefox, a shambles if your not.

How did the decision to disable spell checking for IE ever get out into the wild? And how are we supposed to explain this away to our clients?

Looks like I’ll be spending the day adding it back into the tinyMCE editor and working how to get the spell checking service up and running.

Cheers EPiServer 6 developers!

Mar 31, 2010

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Sep 21, 2010 10:33 AM

[EDIT] I don't actually appear to have the ability in FireFox either!

Sep 21, 2010 10:33 AM

I'm currently looking into reinstating the spell checking functionality provided by tinyMCE, and will update you all once I have a working solution.

With regards to Firefox spell checking, is anyone else not getting this as a right click option?

rikard
rikard Sep 21, 2010 10:33 AM

I have it working out-of-the-box on a new CMS 6 installation (with Alloy demo site installed) on both PC and Mac with standard Firefox 3.6.2 installations.

Sep 21, 2010 10:33 AM

Hi All

I have successfully implemented the spell checking using tinyMCEs own .NET handler. I'll be creating a new blog post shortly detailing how to configure.

Watch this space...

Anders Murel
Anders Murel Sep 21, 2010 10:33 AM

Hi Ben!

Any news on the spell checker?

Sep 21, 2010 10:33 AM

Hi Anders

My follow-up post contains details: http://world.episerver.com/Blogs/Ben-Edwards/Dates/2010/4/EPiServer-6--Its-2010-and-we-can-check-our-spelling-with-a-bit-of-configuration/

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