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Spellchecker example from Gmail

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Spellchecker example from Gmail

Kupu 1.3 provided spellchecking support in a popup window. We'd like to look at other UI approaches. It was suggested to look at Gmail's spellchecker UI. Since not everyone has Gmail, this screencast shows the essentials of the Gmail approach to spellchecking.

We can't do it exactly the same, but we can analyze its approach and learn lessons.
Date 2006/01/05
Tags
kupu (5)
Filesize 592 Kb
Duration 1m50s

Details

This screencast shows a couple of UI elements that Kupu's spellchecking could consider:

  1. Toggle the editor from edit mode to spellcheck mode, at least from the user's perspective. Don't launch a new UI panel (popup, drawer, etc.).
  2. Have the same element that put you into this mode, get you out of that mode.
  3. Later, when we consider multilingual spellchecking, provide a small-but-intuitive element for this.
  4. Highlight the typos. Clicking on a highlighted word gives a drop-down menu with a list of alternatives.

And well, that's about the extent of their UI. Compact and intuitive.