http://www.starryhope.com/tech/2005/mac-tip-spellcheck-almost-everything/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:21:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.starryhope.com/tech/2005/mac-tip-spellcheck-almost-everything/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Todd Huss’ blog » Blog Archive » Spell-checking belongs in the browser, not on the website Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:12:44 +0000 http://www.starryhope.com/?p=37#comment-14 [...] I don’t think spell-checking really belongs on websites because good spell-checking requires significant personalization that must be tailored to the end user based on their areas of interest and domains of expertise. For example, I want to tell my spellchecker to ignore springmvc, webwork, mysql, postgres, etc… Given most people don’t run browser based spellcheckers at the moment it’s still a good idea to have one built into your site but I hope that need goes away eventually. The most popular options at the moment seem to be using the built-in feature in Safari, the Google toolbar has a spellchecker, Spellbound for Firefox, or finally IESpell for IE. [...] [...] I don’t think spell-checking really belongs on websites because good spell-checking requires significant personalization that must be tailored to the end user based on their areas of interest and domains of expertise. For example, I want to tell my spellchecker to ignore springmvc, webwork, mysql, postgres, etc… Given most people don’t run browser based spellcheckers at the moment it’s still a good idea to have one built into your site but I hope that need goes away eventually. The most popular options at the moment seem to be using the built-in feature in Safari, the Google toolbar has a spellchecker, Spellbound for Firefox, or finally IESpell for IE. [...]

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