spelly popup

[urza]

Hello,
I am interested in how the spellchecker in richtextboxarea is
implemented? How is the placement of the popup with suggestions
(corrections) computed? I would like to use something similar in order
to allow suggestions and auto completion of special terms when user is
writing text in richtextarea. But richtexarea doesnt seem to provide
any methot with information about position of cursor.

Thanks

[Brian Kennish (Googler)]

Hey, Spelly is one of the few extensions built on internal versions of
the APIs, so it can do some stuff you can't with the external APIs. As
Lars said at I/O, there's currently a small gap between what's exposed
by the internal and external APIs, which we're working to close.

Still, I think you could approximate Spelly-like functionality by
having a robot insert a small gadget alongside a matching word. The
gadget could drop down the list of suggestions and be removed by the
robot after the user picked one.