JavaScript-Based Rich Text Editor and/or Spell Checker?

Does anybody know of a good, JavaScript-based rich text editor and/or spell checker? I've been doing a lot of research to implement this for Legal Hold and my options aren't quite ideal. Any advice/ideas from anyone out there?

For spell checkers, I'd really like to be able to replicate Firefox/Chrome type behavior for non-supporting browsers. Most notably, I'd rather not have a pop-up spellchecker. I suppose I could try to port one with a pop-up to not having a pop-up, but I'd prefer to just not have one. Not too picky on the functionality of the rich text editor, however. Doesn't need to have 4,000 bells and whistles. I'll consider/evaluate any decent option, be it free or paid.

Is there any precedent or previous implementations here at Thomson Reuters? Does Westlaw Next ever use either of these? If you don't know exactly what was done, but you know a good contact, let me know.

Also, what are the legal concerns with licensing?

**EDIT**: What do you guys think about [jWYSIWYG][1]?

[1]: https://github.com/akzhan/jwysiwyg

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Patrick Schannach

In Advisor (a product on Cobalt), we are using the Xinha rich text editor.
It is open source, and so far has satisfied our needs.

Vince

I've come across it before. It's using PHP files for most of its functionality. Are you using PHP for Advisor? Did you port Xinha over to Java/JavaScript/.Net or something? Do you just not include the functionality that requires PHP backends?

Ryan Morlok

Advisor is a product on the Cobalt platform and Xhina is currently being hosted from our Advisor Website instance. Xhina is pure javascript, so it works fine with our .NET project. We are not using it to provide spell check however, rather relying on Firefox/Chrome to provide spell check for our editorial users who consume the app. (Xhina supports plugins, so it's certainly possible that it has a spell check plugin which may have been where you encountered a php piece to it if the plugin was backed by a web service written in PHP).

Ryan Morlok

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Our only problem with Xhina is because it is skinnable and supports plugins, it wants to load it's own resources after you include its bootstrap javascript file. Due to same origin policy issues, this has prevented us from housing it in Cobalt static content. We are working on this right now as part of the WebContent platformization project (WebContent is the Cobalt module we wrote for Advisor that uses Xhina).

If you'd like a demo on how we're using Xhina, let us know and we'd be happy to help.

Samuel Slotsky

Vince, have you looked into JSpell? (http://www.jspell.com/html-spell-checker.html)

It uses a popup, which you've mentioned you don't want, but you might want to run that by the business and/or the user experience folks, because a popup might be what they want. It does require a license.

GoogieSpell also looks neat (http://orangoo.com/labs/GoogieSpell/). It appears to be free for non-commercial software, but commercial software requires a license.

Vince

My task right now is to obtain a bunch of good suggestions, explain each of them in terms of functionality, cost, pros, cons, etc. and present that to the business, so things like this might make it, even if I don't fully like it. I could always cobble a few things together and/or build missing (or bad) functionality.

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