Re-Enable iespell, or provide download link

Thanks for the feedback.

I like the current approach of tweaking a tinymce theme by overriding the Drupal theme as stated in the 'tweaking a tinymce theme' section of the INSTALL file. (Take a look at the Drupal theme developers guide if this is new territory.) Things like changing the toolbar location or adding buttons become very easy if you spend a little time reading the tinymce docs. That being said, rumor has it another Drupal developer is working on a GUI for this. Let's see what happen.

/**
 * Customize a TinyMCE theme.
 *
 * @param init
 *   An array of settings TinyMCE should invoke a theme. You may override any
 *   of the TinyMCE settings. Details here:
 *
 *    http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/wrapper.php?url=tinymce/docs/using.htm
 *
 * @param textarea_name
 *   The name of the textarea TinyMCE wants to enable.
 *
 * @param theme_name
 *   The default theme name to be enabled for this textarea. The sitewide
 *   default is 'simple', but the user may also override this.
 *
 * @param is_running
 *   A boolean flag that identifies id TinyMCE is currently running for this
 *   request life cycle. If it's already running then anything returned by this
 *   will be ignored. This is necessary since TinyMCE works by being invoked
 *   once per request and not once per textarea.
 */
function tinymce_theme($init, $textarea_name, $theme_name, $is_running) {
  switch ($theme_name) {
    case 'advanced':
      $init['extended_valid_elements'] = 'a[href|target|name]';
      // Add the names of custom plugins here.
      $init['plugins'] = 'table,emotions,iespell, print';
      $init['theme_advanced_buttons3_add_before'] = 'tablecontrols,separator';
      $init['theme_advanced_buttons3_add'] = 'emotions,iespell,separator,print';
      return $init;
  }
}

Regarding #3, I'll disable the spellchecking by default in the advanced theme.

I've decided to let my users decide for themselves whether or not thet want to download something that isn't open-source, in the form of iespell, rather than my deciding for them.

Though it only took me a few minutes to figure out how to re-enable it, I wonder how easy it would be to describe to someone who is less experienced how to do it.

It seems frustrating to me that this feature would be disabled based on the silly argument that "it isn't open source," when indeed, the feature ONLY works in a non-open-source operating system (Windows) in a non-open-source browser (Internet Explorer). By definition, users of IE spell are less open-source aware by virtue of the software they already must be using.

Anyway, FCKEdit has a neat feature: if the user doesn't already have iespell installed when they click the iespell toolbar button, it prompts the user to download the latest binary installer. You can even configure the download URL.

Such a feature would be very handy, since that's one less download I need to direct my users to myself.

Anyway, just a comment. The TinyMCE editor has so blown me away, that I had to get up out of my chair and walk around for a while. My struggles with HTMLArea are OVER!

Marking this is closed since adding iespell can be enabled with a theme override. See the module's README for more details.