Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.3.1, 2.4.3
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MOODLE_23_STABLE, MOODLE_24_STABLE
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MOODLE_25_STABLE
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w15_
MDL-34674_m25_spell -
Description
TinyMCE has a built in spellchecker. I'm suggesting that it be removed in favour of the built in browser spellcheckers.
Currently in Firefox and Chrome and Moodle 2.3, the browser's built in spellchecker is disabled by default and so is TinyMCE's. You can click on the ABC(tick) button to activate the TinyMCE spellchecker. Normally, you'd be able to right click in the textbox and use the browser's spellechecker, but TinyMCE overrides the right click with it's own menu. You can bypass this by holding down control and right clicking, but that's not something you'd expect end users to know.
I'm currently investigating how to a) complety remove the spellchecking UI from TinyMCE (perhaps leaving it for IE 8 & 9), b) make sure the user's preference for browser spellchecking applies to the TinyMCE edit window and c) how to turn off the TinyMCE right-click menu so that it doesn't interfere with the browser spellchecker. If anyone else already knows how to do this I'd like to propose as the default for core Moodle.