TinyMCE: Firefox's native spell check is disabled
Aren Cambre - November 9, 2009 - 00:12
| Project: | Wysiwyg |
| Version: | 6.x-2.0 |
| Component: | Editor - TinyMCE |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs review |
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Description
I cannot get Firefox's native spell check to work with TinyMCE. Just upgraded to TinyMCE 3.2.7 and still have the problem.
I opened a similar issue with the old Drupal TinyMCE module: #278970: Spell check disabled in Firefox. However, a report at http://drupal.org/node/135150#comment-1695368 says my suggested fix doesn't work.
#1
I had to hack wysiwyg/editors/tinymce.inc
141 function wysiwyg_tinymce_settings($editor, $config, $theme) {
142 $settings = array(
143 'gecko_spellcheck' => TRUE,
If anyone can show us how to do it without editing the module's files, it would be appreciated.
#2
Worked for me! Setting to "needs review" to get other opinions.
#3
The problem is that moxiecode (tinymce) disabled the firefox spell checker by default two or three years ago due to some bug it caused. However, no-one seems to know what the bug was, or whether it still applies.
Until that is known, I guess that this needs to be an option somewhere with some kind of vague warning, rather than a hard-coded over-ride.
#4
If the rationale is lost, Moxiecode may have simply declined to revisit the issue. Might want to force it to true in a beta or dev and see how it pans out.
#5
+1 for that.
I've got spell checker turned on on two sites and it doesn't seem to hurt at all.
Having said that, I'm not doing anything clever - no video media or special buttons.