RapidSpell Web provides a spelling component to add spell check functionality to your web applications, by simply adding the Web Control to an aspx page (Web Form) or directly accessing the classes in a code behind page. There are no programming skills required to use RapidSpell Web, because of it's strong visual designer (VS) design time support, making this ASP.NET spell checker control accessible to ASPNET page designers.

The UI provides all the usual features, add (to user dictionary), change, change all, ignore, ignore all, and smart suggestions. The user dictionary is stored on the server and can be unique per user, or shared amongst groups. The spell checker UI features an advanced preview pane to interactively highlight errors (with no post back), and accepts manual corrections.

Interactively checks any server or client side text boxes: <asp:textbox>, any Html text box component such as <textarea> and <input type='text'> and 3rd Party controls, such as Dart's PowerWEB TextBox, 'pinEdit' from Pintexx, 'HtmlTextBox' and more. The custom client side interface mechanism allows interaction with practically any component, for example flash based text boxes.

The RapidSpellWInline control provides Windows style in-text-box highlighting, with editable text box support for modern browsers and static 'overlay' support for older browsers.

The RapidSpellWebLauncher control provides traditional dialog (modal/non-modal) spell checking.

The open API allows customizations to be made to behavior, eg;

• User dictionary behavior - eg. change the way the user dictionary is persisted (databases, Cache etc)
• Parser behavior - eg. use UI as an offensive language checker
• Custom ignore patterns

The included non GUI component provides core spell checker functionality through the RapidSpellChecker class, which means it is suitable for server applications as well as any console application. It has been clocked at 70,000 words/sec on a standard 1GHz PC (100k+ on average server hardware).

Free minor version updates (eg. 3.0 to 3.x) are included with a purchased license, as is email technical support.

RapidSpell Web works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera and Safari. It uses only HTML and Javascript, this means there are no special requirements, plugins, or long downloads, as with some spell check server Controls.

It is easy to use RapidSpell Web as a Web Control in an aspx page or programmatically in code behind, either way full customisation of style, layout and properties is possible. Using a simple HTML template mechanism it is also possible to layout the spell checker as you wish, including branding.

All dictionaries (main and user's) are stored on the server, yet the user's spell checking experience is not hampered by any post-backs to the server, because there are none. User dictionaries can be stored on a database (examples provided).

Dict Manager, allows RapidSpell Dict files to be customized and created from other word lists, using the free 'Dict Manager' tool distributed with the product.

RapidSpell Web provides two distinct spell checker controls;
RapidSpellWebLauncher functions in one of two modes, 'popup' - which open's a small console window with the spell checker in it or in 'separate' - which loads the spell checker in the main window on a separate page, there are no restrictions with either of these modes.
RapidSpellWInline works using AJAX to highlight errors inside the text box.

All of the included spell checker controls can be enabled as Validators, which perform validation of spelling in text boxes before allowing data to be saved. For example; when the form is posted back, the RapidSpellWebLauncher or RapidSpellWInline control will check for errors, if there are errors the user is prompted (in the validation summary) to run a spell check. They do not have to correct all errors, but must at least run the spell checker. The spell checker can also be started automatically.

Two powerful suggestions engines can be used to find good suggestions for words, including an exclusive 'sounds-like' algorithm.

RapidSpell Web has a decoupled checker engine, which allows (via an interface definition) the use of any core spell checker class or other type of text parser to be used with the interface. This allows complete customization of the engine (including for tasks other than spell checking, such as offensive word checking) and the interface.

Works without session variables, making it possible to use RapidSpell Web with server clusters/farms. The single request architecture keeps server load down, and is possible through our high performance suggestions algorithm

RapidSpell Web was designed to .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1 specification and supports legacy browsers, Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 6+, Firefox 1, Opera, and Safari on the PC and Mac.

Use the control from the designer or directly in the code-behind.

RapidSpell Web was written entirely in C#, and makes no use of legacy DLLs or APIs.

Every aspect of the appearance (text, layout, and style) can be customized through simple properties.

Open API allows the user dictionaries to be stored in any fashion desired - default is server file based, however this can be overridden for database, or application cache usage for example.

Server farms are 100% supported, no special settings or configuration required.

Provided .NET is installed on the server, RapidSpell can work with text boxes on ASP or Html pages.

.NET 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 are fully supported - as are all versions of Visual Studio .NET.

RapidSpell Web .NET complies with Section 508 and W3C AA. Please view the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) which outlines the specific accessibility-related features.