Is this project abandoned? about jquery-spellchecker HOT 13 CLOSED

Hi. Thanks for asking this question. I have ignored this project for a while, 
but recently I have have decided to rewrite the code and fix all the issues 
listed in this issue tracker. 

I stopped developing this plugin when I could not resolve a particular issue 
related to replacing words that span across element nodes.
Looking through the issues and feedback, I have decided that a lot of people 
don't actually need this! So I have simplified things a bit, and made the new 
plugin a lot easier to work with different spelling engines, which should make 
it a lot easier to integrate.
I hope to release an alpha version of the new spellchecker very soon. I will 
update this ticket and this googlecode project with information about the new 
version once it's released.

Sounds fab, look forward to testing the new version!

Also, not sure if this should be a separate issue, but do you plan on making 
the 3rd party wysiwyg integrations behave like the HTML demo where inline 
dropdown is used?

That's pretty easy to do, but the main issue I have is the following:

<p>here is a sen<span>tan<em>cc</em>e</span></p>

It's real difficult to write code to replace the word 'sentancce' with 
'sentence' in the above string of text. WYSIWYGs might generate a lot of these 
situations (for various reasons) and so it's real difficult coding up a 
reliable method of replacing words that span across nodes. 
This problem was the main reason I abandoned the project initially. But I'm 
taking a different direction with the new plugin architecture, and I plan to 
solve this issue using a different approach.

To answer your question: if I can resolve the above problem, then yes I will 
make the plugin fully compatible with WYSIWYG's!

Fully compatible, using the inline dropdown menu.

Yes, especially pasting from MS Word slaughters the nice plain text in wysiwygs 
with lots of <mso> tags...

Look forward to the rewrite.

I am now curious how you plan to tackle this issue with the new approach. :) 
Would love to read your plans on it. Perhaps I and the other users can chime in 
with some help.

It's definitely an interesting topic :) 

Well since I came across this problem, I did a heck-load of research on the 
topic. I even tried my best at coming up with a solution here: 
https://github.com/badsyntax/domwalker.js/blob/master/js/domwalker.js

James Padolsey wrote a blog post about this at the same time that I was trying 
to resolve it: 
http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/replacing-text-in-the-dom-its-not-that-simp
le/
And then he recently wrote a new blog post on the topic: 
http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/replacing-text-in-the-dom-solved/

There's a lot of useful information in the comments of those blog posts.

Essentially what I will do is look through all the possible solutions mentioned 
in the comments. If I can find some code that someone else has written that 
works, then I will probably just use that. 

I don't want to try solve this myself, as it's gnarley, as that was the reason 
why I abandoned the project.

Wow, that solution is superb! Awesome find...
This seems to nail it pretty much, and I love the demo
http://padolsey.github.com/findAndReplaceDOMText/demo.html

It's not a solution I can just drop in, I will need to understand the solution 
and change it slightly to fit with my requirements. 

"If matches are split across multiple nodes it will wrap each portion 
individually"

I don't need to wrap anything, I need to replace words that are spilt across 
multiple nodes, and the replacement words can be less or more characters than 
the word to replace, so it's a bit more complicated. But that code is a real 
good starting point!

If jquery replace does not cut it, maybe we can investigate using the 
crossbrowser xregexp http://xregexp.com/ I found it mentioned here 
http://simonwillison.net/2006/Jan/20/escape/#p-6

I've decided to use https://github.com/padolsey/findAndReplaceDOMText This 
library gives me exactly what I wanted. 

I've integrated it into the development version of the new spellchecker here: 
https://github.com/badsyntax/jquery-spellchecker/blob/develop/src/js/jquery.spel
lchecker.js

What this means is that we can now properly use the spellchecker in 3rd-party 
WYSIWYG editors! I'll get a demo up soon..

I've release a new 0.1.0 version here: 
https://github.com/badsyntax/jquery-spellchecker

All future development work will happen on github, and this repository will 
become obsolete. 

You asked about integrating the dropdown menu in wysiwygs? Well here ya go: 
http://jquery-spellchecker.badsyntax.co/bootstrap-wysihtml5.html

Please can you test here: http://jquery-spellchecker.badsyntax.co/textarea.html

If you find any issues please create a ticket in the new issue tracker here: 
https://github.com/badsyntax/jquery-spellchecker/issues

What an awesome job! Wow! Will start playing with integrating it to Tinymce in 
a week probably. :)