Amazing SpellBound Saturday 2005-12-03
I just installed Robert Strong’s amazing spell checker SpellBound, a plug-in for Firefox.
It allows you to do spell checking on any HTML form in your browser, before submitting the content to the server. It is built on the code for the Mozilla Thunderbird spell checker, and uses the slightly tuned dictionaries from OpenOffice.org.
It installs itself with a button on the tool bar that, when clicked, renders all suspicious words red and underlined. Clicking on such a word pops up a list of suggested words to choose among.
If you’re using the wrong dictionary, SpellBound may even discover this and suggest the right one, giving you the choice tho switch or keep the one you are using. Impressive!
SpellBound is a pleasure for any blogger or writer of Q or A in discussion groups , but a heavenly plug-in for those of us that writes in a non native tounge.
Often when I post to news groups, I’m so eager to make my point, that I end up submitting a comment with quite a few misspellings. It’s very embarrassing, as I know it will affect the focus on what I have to say.
When I given myself the time to spell check, I’d have to write my comment in some other program that has a spell checker – it may have been Word or Frontpage. When that’s done, I normally have to copy the text to a pure text editor to get rid of harmful proprietary styling code or markup. Finally I’d copy the text to the form input area. It’s a tedious work flow and for a lazy poster like me, it’ not always done.
Many roses go to Robert, who for lack of time, has closed down his contact form on Sourceforge. Thanx Robert for this must have plug-in!
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- Author : Petit
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