Firefox - Spell checker

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:50 pm

Due to the lack of a good Spell checker extension for Firefox I did a little searching and found a nice little utility on sourceforge. It seems to work pretty well although you need to Right Click > Check Spelling, it is better than pasting it in an editor and running spell checker on those long posts

Spellbound
"What is SpellBound?

SpellBound is a port of the spell checker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite's Composer that enables spell checking in web forms such as html textarea / input elements (html input password elements are not checked by SpellBound) and rich text form elements. This allows you to spell check forms (e.g. message board posts, blog entries, wysiwyg, etc.) before submitting them when using your Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Suite browser."

All the installation instructions are listed on that page, then you need to grab a dictionary from http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/. There is a wide range of languages available.

Afrikaans (South Africa)
Bulgarian
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English (Australia)
English (Canada)
English (United Kingdom)
English (US)
English (New Zealand)
French (France)
Faroese
Galician (Spain)
German (Austria)
German (Germany)
German (Switzerland)
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Irish
Interlingua
Italian
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Maori
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Polish
Portuguese (Brasil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Russian (without Ë)
Russian (with Ë)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Spain)
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish
Ukrainian
Welsh
Zulu (South Africa)

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:19 pm

people should just learn to spell instead of letting machines do it for them

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:40 pm

I see you've learned to be a cunt without letting a machine do it for you :icon30: :icon30: :icon30: :icon30:

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:41 pm

seremtan wrote:people should just learn to spell instead of letting machines do it for them

Knowing how to spell and making casuall mistakes is a different thing.

Post by **shiznit** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:17 pm

I couldn't bother with that but thanks anyway.

Post by **Transient** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:20 pm

dzjepp wrote:
seremtan wrote:people should just learn to spell instead of letting machines do it for them
Knowing how to spell and making casuall mistakes is a different thing.

Well you wouldn't think to spellcheck a casual mistake, now would you?

Post by **netrex** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:30 pm

I just use webster.com for stuff I'm not sure about. takes more time, but I learn it faster then

But it could be nice to have a last check with this plugin though.

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:08 pm

Transient wrote:
dzjepp wrote:
seremtan wrote:people should just learn to spell instead of letting machines do it for them
Knowing how to spell and making casuall mistakes is a different thing.
Well you wouldn't think to spellcheck a casual mistake, now would you?

plus a spellchecker won't pick up the words you've missed out from sentences (i do this a lot)

Post by **netrex** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:11 pm

seremtan wrote:plus a spellchecker won't pick up the words you've missed out from sentences (i do this a lot)

I do that the other way around.. I miss a lot of stuff written. Or read it the wrong way, I see the words as something other that what's actually written there. Also switch a lot of letters when I type. Like Kile instead of Like and so on. Damn annoying.

Post by **glossy** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:24 am

dzjepp wrote:
seremtan wrote:people should just learn to spell instead of letting machines do it for them
Knowing how to spell and making casuall mistakes is a different thing.

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