Grant Skinner Selling Spell Check Engine for Flash, Flex and AIR
Kick ass! Grant Skinner’s Spell Check Engine, on display in Buzzword, is now going to be available to the general public. I am really stoked about this because there are a ton of Flex/Flash applications out there that could really use this component. Because most of the major browsers now have spell checking built in, it’s become a must have when you do anything with text. Grant’s component is excellent, so I’m glad to see that he’s selling it.
It’s also cool to see the 3rd party component market grow a bit. In the comments John Bland asked about open sourcing it and Grant said that he thought long and hard about how to actually release the component. The price for a single license ($389.00) is more than fair considering what you’re getting and Grant responds by saying he wanted this to set a bit of a precedent for 3rd party AS3/Flash/Flex components. Not everything has to be open source. People are willing to pay for good components and right now we just don’t have a lot of those. I’m glad to see Grant added the spell checker. I can’t wait to see this thing all over the place. All Flash applications will be MUCH better off.
[tags]Flash, Flex, AIR, Grant Skinner, Spell Check Engine[/tags]
Posted in Flash, Flex, Rich Internet Applications
October 11th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Hey Ryan, check my last comment on the blog. My first one could’ve been misconstrued a bit.
The open source was a half-joke because I want to use it right now but the project isn’t going to get any extras (that cost) thrown into it since we’re almost done.
I agree though…3rd party components is an arena the Flash Platform world has struggled with for quite some time (in terms of selection).
October 11th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Hey man, I didn’t see it in a negative way at all. It was clear that it came more from excitement than cheapness
I just thought it was a good excuse to riff on the 3rd party stuff (and mention Grant’s response).
October 11th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Yeah, no doubt.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
It’s great that early in the lifecycle of Flex there have been lots of developers creating work and opening up the source for all to see and use. I’m sure Adobe is happy as can be about this because it was a bit of a worry from the Flash days where very few designer/developers ever showed off their code in anything other than a tutorial.
Flex has changed all that. But I agree with Grant that a market needs to grow up around top shelf components. It will be interesting to see where these leads.