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Browser-based Spell Check!

I am loving the built-in spell checker in Firefox2 web browser. I’m a sloppy typer, inconsistent copy editor and bad writer. Firefox2, available for download now, reviews every word you type in a composition window and places a thin dotted red line under words that do not match it’s built in dictionary.

This does mean that proper nouns and txty words are also given the red line, but that’s fine with me. There also isn’t any mandatory review before submitting or spelling suggestion interface. It just subtly indicates words that it does not recognize and you can do with that info what you want.

Here’s a screen shot of a test I did using the beginning of this entry:
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6 Responses to “Browser-based Spell Check!”

  1. Comment by Michal Migurski | 11/01/06 at 11:37 pm

    Don’t you use a Mac? This is available system-wide in OS X, EXCEPT for some reason in Firefox. I think they went and implemented their own widgets or something, that can’t take advantage of OS-level services.

  2. Comment by SlashChick | 11/02/06 at 12:29 am

    Too bad it still can’t detect the correct usage of its/it’s. ;)

    (Hint: “it’s” = “it is”…which doesn’t work in your sentence.)

  3. ted
    Comment by ted | 11/02/06 at 9:51 pm

    I so knew someone would point out a typo even though I prefaced I was ‘a sloppy typer and inconsistent copy editor’. I bet there are a couple more to be found. Perhaps I even added one in this comment. But I’m gonna hit submit and move on now..

  4. Comment by Ashley Cecil | 11/06/06 at 6:56 pm

    A god-send for someone like me. A boyfriend gave me a pocket spell checker as a gag gift for Christmas one year. Not so much of a joke; I used it all the time.

  5. Comment by dedicated hosting | 11/09/06 at 7:31 am

    Yes i am sure that should help you, as you said that you are bad writer, but it is fine because with mistakes we learn and if we dont commit them, we dont learn.

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