A few days ago I posted about the ‘Spell Check As You Type‘ feature in Windows Live Mail. I just found out an Firefox extension, Spellbound, that does that for any web page text field in Firefox. You have to install the development version of the extension. You can get it here. Well it is a development version so the standard disclaimers apply. Use it for testing. Anyway I have not had any problems with it so far.
SpellBound is a port of the spellchecker 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.
It works with Gmail’s mail composer so technically we have spell check as you type in Gmail too. Cool? I think so. It also works with dasBlog’s editor.
Update: Looks like this will soon be built into Firefox. See bug. Thanks Henrik Gemal for the tip.
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#1 by Henrik Gemal on December 21, 2005 - 11:47 AM
Soon there’s no need for an extension. This will be build into Mozilla Firefox.
See bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302050
#2 by Prathiraj on December 21, 2005 - 7:41 PM
there’s one for IE too check http://www.iespell.com
#3 by Vasanth on December 23, 2005 - 4:12 PM
You should check out spellbound. Its solution is a lot better than IESpell.