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How to add Spelling to ASP and other web applicationsDownloads
The increasing sophistication of web based applications makes it important that such applications offer rich functionality of comparable quality to that offered by desktop applications. One way of improving application quality is to add spell checking facilities to the application. This will also lead to an increase in the quality of data captured by the application. Writing a custom application to offer spell checking facilities for a website is obviously going to be a time-consuming operation. Thankfully there are a number of commercial offerings that can be used to easily add such functionality to a website. One such offering is ASP Spell Check. As its name obviously suggests, ASP Spell Check can be used to add spell checking facilities for Active Server Pages (ASP) applications. It may also be used for ASP.NET applications, as well as those based on Macromedia's Flash ActionScript, JavaScript and AJAX. IntegrationASP Spell Check is able to integrate with a variety of web technologies. At the most basic level of integration, it is able to allow the text within basic Active Server Pages HTML text boxes to be spell checked. However, it is also able to directly integrate with most rich text editing boxes that are commonly used when developing web applications that require anything more sophisticated than a basic text box. ASP Spell Check supports the common rich text editors such as Innova/YUSASP or the FCK editor. Integration with ASP.NET is also possible. Custom DictionariesASP Spell Check supports the use of custom dictionaries. This makes it possible to add lists of words that ASP Spell Check will automatically recognise when performing spelling checks. This is particularly useful for developing spell checking facilities for websites in specific vertical markets where a lot of technical terms are used, such as IT or medicine. DocumentationASP Spell Check's documentation is available as a Adobe Acrobat PDF (ideal for printing) and as a Windows Help file (useful for searching). The documentation covers installation, usage of the utility's functionality, and sample code for a variety of usage scenarios. There are a few typographical errors in the documentation, but the sample code looks to cover the most likely usage scenarios. Foreign Languages SupportFor developers with multi-lingual websites who want to allow their website users to spell check in languages other than US English, ASP Spell Check has a number of alternative dictionaries available. Current languages include Australian English, British English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Portuguese and Spanish. Dictionaries can also be specified by using the addLanguage method of the ASPSpellLink object, using syntax such as this: Dim ASPSpellingLink More than one language dictionary may be used simultaneously, allowing spelling to be checked in several languages at once. Downloads
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