Version History

Product improvement is always on going, customers receive minor version updates for free.

Improvements in v3.0

• Inline and as-you-type spell checking added
• Improved support for Struts and JSF
• Ignore all action now global to all text boxes
• Multiple RapidSpellWebMultiple tags can now be used
• It is now assumed that the character encoding used in application servers will be UTF-8 (instead of the previous value of "8859_1"), if this is not correct then non ASCII chars (i.e. accents) may appear as boxes or question marks. The RapidSpellWeb tag (popup) has an attribute assumedApplicationEncoding which can be set to whatever encoding the application server is using.
• Dictionary update.

Improvements in v2.4

• LeaveWindowOpenForUndo property added to RapidSpellWebLauncher to set whether the popup stays open after the last error is dealt with, giving the user a chance to undo their change before committing.
• Smooth transitions (between text boxes) for RapidSpellWebMultiple has been added (useSmoothTransitions property)
• Undo functionality has been added (enableUndo property in RapidSpellWebLauncher)
• Improved suggestions for short (2, 3 letter) words
• LookIntoHyphenatedText property added to RapidSpellWebLauncher
• CheckCompoundWords property added to RapidSpellWebLauncher

Improvements in v2.3

• New RapidSpellWebMultiple Tag makes multiple check boxing cleaner and simpler.
• Duplicate word detection added.
• Script filtering added to prevent malicious Javascripts in text from running.
• setDictFileStream in RapidSpellWeb tag and RapidSpellChecker facilitates Dict file loading from alternative sources (such as WAR files).
• Safari and Opera browser support.
• SSL friendly, SSL sites are now supported without the mixed content warning (set SSLFriendly attribute to true in Tags).
• Modal popups supported with modal attribute in RapidSpellWebLauncher.
• Popup window position now settable.
• buttonImageMouseOut/Over/Down attributes allow images to be used instead of buttons, easily.
• New properties added to define element styles in spell checker.
• Portuguese UI texts and parser added to support new dictionary.
• allowMixedCase attribute added to optionally allow errors such as "aFrIca" (default: false).

Improvements in v2.2

• Improved suggestions algorithm.

Improvements in v2.1

• Servlet compatibility added, allowing RapidSpell Web Java to be used with full functionality in Servlets.
• Smoother multiple text box checking, multiple text boxes can be checked with one button (consult demo).
• Dict file functionality added for run-time switchable dictionaries.
• International UI text added for French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Improvements in v2

• Full JSP Tag included
• Addition of new alternative suggestions algorithm
• Large speed increases in word lookup and suggestion finding
• Direct future non English language dictionary support
• More behaviour customisation methods
• More accurate and separate US & UK dictionaries
• 3rd Party component support
• Multiple text box per page checking
• HTML/XML text compatible
• More behaviour control

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