An API to Check Spelling and Grammar

Raphael Mudge
raffi@automattic.com
 Overview
 What is After the Deadline
 Adding AtD into your App
 Resources
 What is AtD?
 A software service, checks:
Spelling, misused words, style, and
grammar
 Front-end components
 A tool to aid your users
 Who should use AtD?
Content Management Systems
User Generated Content Sites
Web Office Suites

Any where people are writing!

 What is AtD?
 A software service, checks:
 What is AtD?
 A software service, checks:
 What is AtD?
 A software service, checks:
 What is AtD?
 A software service, checks:
How it works
 Integrating AtD
 AtD speaks an XML protocol
 Front-end plugins for:
 jQuery
 TinyMCE
and…
Example #1
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Example #1 Source
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AtD w/ jQuery
AtD w/ jQuery
AtD w/ jQuery
AtD w/ jQuery
AtD w/ jQuery
 Issues
Cross-domain AJAX?
Use a proxy script
Tunnel data over remote CSS
 Server
Open Source – GPL
Requires:
Java 1.6.0
4GB of RAM
 Resources
http://open.afterthedeadline.com
Server software
http://www.afterthedeadline.com
Front-end plugins
mailto: raffi@automattic.com
My email, I don’t bite.
 In summary…
 What is After the Deadline
 Adding AtD into your App
 Resources
 Resources
http://open.afterthedeadline.com
Server software
http://www.afterthedeadline.com
Front-end plugins
mailto: raffi@automattic.com
My email, I don’t bite.