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Google spell check and Prism

Paul Miller — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:49:20 +0100

Thanks - I look forward to it... :-)

Paul Miller
Technology Evangelist, Talis

Google spell check and Prism

richardfrancis — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:42:53 +0100

No problem, I'll tidy it up a bit and add some comments etc... I've sent beta 1 to Matt ... should be with you early next week (weekend commitments)

Rich

Google spell check and Prism

Paul Miller — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:44:37 +0100

Rich

excellent - just what we want to see! :-)

Would you be ok with sharing your code on the TDN, perhaps along with a wee bit of documentation to tell other libraries which bit they need to change?

Paul Miller
Technology Evangelist, Talis

OK

richardfrancis — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:15:44 +0100

No problem Matt, it's coming over in a tar ball to your e-mail address. It's written in Java (JSP) and uses AJAX --> it's tested in firefox.

Nice one.

Matt Bird — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:04:35 +0100

Firstly Rich, shouldnt you be slaving over your project?

Secondly what did you write it in, and could you send me the code to have a glance over?

Cheers
Matt

One application down

richardfrancis — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:22:57 +0100

I've just wrote a quick application to incorporate Google spell check with Birmingham Uni's prism, if I wanted it to search Wolverhampton Uni's I take I would have to change "bham.swdefault" to "wolves.swdefault" or similar, where would I find a list of codes?

Rich

I've been waiting for this ...

richardfrancis — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:08:38 +0100

I can't believe I'm the first to comment on this, but ever since I left last September I've been waiting for the API to be released!

Exciting stuff!

Now I've got my username and password for TDN I'll have a play. I wonder how long it will take to worm its way to Slashdot?

See you soon,
Rich F

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