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November 11, 2003
Spell Checker for Web Form Entry
I haven't forgotten that I promised more information on the Internet Librarian sessions. I'm waiting until the presentations are posted on the Infotoday site before going into much detail because I'd like to include links to the original powerpoints.
In the meantime, here's here's a tidbit from Darlene Fichter's session on Web Tools. One utility she mentioned was ieSpell, a spell checker for Internet Explorer.
This little program will spell check any text input boxes used for data entry on web forms. I tried it out, and it works fairly well. Just make sure that you set the suggestion mode to "Slow, but accurate." Before I made that change, ieSpell was missing some obvious misspellings. And it's free!
This is certainly useful if you're a blogger entering quite a bit of text. I can imagine it could also be handy for intranet applications as well, as many of those are getting fairly data entry intensive. I'm curious as to whether it could be built into an intranet application.
And yes, I did run spell check on this entry, and my spelling passed muster. At least this time. Too bad it couldn't check my html as well. I always forget to close that href tag!
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As a horrible speller, I'm very glad to know about this. I've often copied my text back into an Outlook message just to spell check it and then copied it back to the web message.
Thanks Cindy!
Posted by: Lynn at November 13, 2003 07:24 AM
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