WebSpellChecker (WSC) is a default spell-checker in FCKeditor 2.6.5. To make SpellCheckAsYouType (SCAYT) a default spell-checker in FCKeditor 2.6.5 please follow the instruction below:
1) Open ckconfig.js (…\FCKeditor_2.6.5\fckeditor\fckconfig.js) for edit
2) Change the value of parameter “FCKConfig.SpellChecker” to “SCAYT”
It should look like:
FCKConfig.SpellChecker = ‘SCAYT’.
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“A new major release of our good and widely known FCKeditor is available. We’ve been focused on fixing small compatibility issues with some browsers (IE8 mainly) and porting a nice feature introduced with CKEditor 3, our unique Spell Check As You Type (SCAYT) solution.
This release also introduces some important security fixes. Upgrading is highly recommended.” (source CKEditor official site).
SpellCheckAsYouType (SCAYT) + FCKeditor 2.6.5
FCKeditor became one of the most popular and loved text editors for Internet. Companies choose FCKeditor and it proves an online poll held on spellchecker.net site in March 2009.
In January 2009 FCKeditor 2.6.4 with an integrated WebSpellChecker was released and powerful spell-checking plug-in became available for all FCKeditor users. Now we are happy to announce the release of FCKeditor 2.6.5 with an integrated SpellCheckAsYouType (SCAYT). Users of FCKeditor are welcome to use new SCAYT functionality which allows to see and correct misspellings while typing a text.
SCAYT is an integrated part of FCKeditor 2.6.5 and if you use this editor you already have SCAYT – there is no need to download and install it.
Free SCAYT with an advertisement banner is available for all FCKeditor users! To get rid from advertisement banner you should migrate from hosted free version to Hosted Paid or Licensed version. Please follow migration instructions for Hosted or Licensed version.
You are welcome to discuss this topic in our forum.
Currently, the online spell-checking service supports the following additional languages:
• English Australian 
• Russian 
Support of these and other additional languages will be available for hosted and licensed customers in the fourth quarter of 2009.
A free online spell-checker is available for all users to check for spelling mistakes. The spell-checking online service can be accessed from any system or computer that has Internet connection.
Users can spell-check in 18 different languages and dialects, including English US, English Canada, English UK, English AU, Dansk, Nederlands, Suomi, Français, Français (Canada), Deutsch, Ελληνικά, Italiano, Norsk, Português, Português (Brasil), Русский, Español, and Svenska.
All of the available languages are listed on the spell-checker page.
To make the spell-checker more user-friendly, we plan to translate the spell-checker page into each of the supported languages.
We’ve been working hard during the last year to produce completely new version of SpellCheckAsYouType (SCAYT) product. SCAYT 2.0 is improved and optimized. Prompt loading, quick and smart text processing, cross browser support and other benefits are already available for SCAYT 2.0 users.
SpellChecker.net company is Gold Level Sponsor of CKSourse (formerly FCKeditor) company. In scope of partnership between these two companies, WSC and SCAYT 2.0 are integrated spell-checkers in the just released CKEditor 3.0.
Free hosted version of WSC and SCAYT 2.0 with advertisement banner is available for all CKEditor customers. To get rid from advertisement banner you should migrate from hosted free version to Hosted Paid or Licensed version.
Please follow migration instructions:
* Migration Instruction from free hosted version to paid hosted version
* Migration Instruction from free hosted version to licensed version
View demos:
* CKEditor demo on CKEditor official site
* CKEditor demo on SpellChecker.net site
We received several emails from customers, where they ask if Internet Explorer 8 is supported by SpellChecker.net applications. The answer is yes.
We maintain all compatible browsers starting from certain versions. Release of new versions is monitored, compatibility tests of the SpellChecker.net products on newly released versions is performed.
Compatible Browsers are as follows:
* Internet Explorer 6.0 +
* Firefox 2.0 +
* Google Chrome
* Safari 3.0 +
SpellChecker.net company doesn’t only sell licenses of the application, but also provides spell-checking service. With the growth of the number of SpellChecker.net customers we faced with a necessity to start balancing the load. In scope of this post we want to share our experience how we balance the volume on our servers.
The question of load balancing became more urgent when WebSpellChecker became a part of FCKeditor 2.6.4 available for all users of the editor. And now when CKEditor 3.0 with an embedded SCAYT 2.0 is coming load balancing will play a huge role in the service provision.
On the image at the right you can see how server load varies within 24 hours (time range is based on PDT). Load is not equal during a day. As we use Amazon EC2 servers it is not reasonable to run instances and pay for an additional server time when we do not need it. But at the same time we must be sure that the number of running servers is enough to provide stable and reliable work of the service. Logic solution is to have variable number of servers running at the same time.
Though the solution is obvious – tools to implement and support it are required. At first we started the development of our own load balancing agent and instance manager. Being in the middle of the implementation we received a Newsletter from Amazon “Introducing Monitoring, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing for Amazon EC2″.
Newsletter started with “We are excited to announce the public beta of several new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): Amazon CloudWatch, a web service for monitoring AWS cloud resources, Auto Scaling for automatically growing and shrinking Amazon EC2 capacity based on demand, and Elastic Load Balancing for distributing incoming traffic across Amazon EC2 compute instances. Together, these capabilities provide you with visibility into the health and usage of your AWS compute resources, enhance application performance, and lower costs.”
It is useful to read newsletters! After reviewing mentioned features released by Amazon we made a conclusion that it is exactly what we need for load balancing!
New Amazon features provide us with the following benefits:
1. With Auto Scaling we can ensure that the number of Amazon EC2 instances we’re using scales up seamlessly during demand spikes to maintain performance, and scales down automatically during demand lulls to minimize costs. Auto Scaling is well suited for applications that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage. So it perfectly meets our needs!
2. Thanks to CloudWatch feature we have a visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns – including metrics such as CPU utilization or network traffic.
3. Elastic Load Balancing allows us to automatically distribute incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
We have just started to use Amazon Features for load balancing and will share our experience in the next posts.
CKEditor 3.0 Release Candidate is available to public! Release was announced on June 22, 2009 on FCKeditor site. This release is not yet targeted to production web sites but it can be used for evaluation purposes.
SCAYT is already available in CKEditor release candidate version!
Please note, that SCAYT support in RC is realized for FireFox, Chrome and Safari browsers. Internet Explorer is supported, but SCAYT was disabled in RC for IE because of some issues, which have already been fixed. Support of Internet Explorer will be available in the release version of CKEditor.
Demo and downloadable package is available on the CKEditor web site.
The final release of CKEditor 3.0 with WSC and SCAYT 2.0 as an embedded spell-checkers is scheduled to July 7, 2009!
SpellChecker.net team is actively working on SpellCheckAsYouType (SCAYT) Version 2.0 and extension of the languages supported for spell-checking. Your participation in the survey will help us to improve SpellChecker.net products and services in order to meet your business needs and to set our priorities according to yours.
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