Any chance for a spell check modification or code snippet?

Hey
I was just wondering Baldrick, any chance you can add a spell checker to the forums, I go to a site where they have a spell check mod or code snippet that you can use once you have finished writing, it would save time on editing, especialy when you are trying to write fast, I have noticed alot of people, including my self (bad speller anyway) have edited for the reason of typos.

Denis

[edit] Fix typos

When I use Firefox it catches a lot of spelling errors and typos. Misspelled words are underlined in red.

Dang, someone else beat me again while I was correcting my spelling.

I'll just show you what I mean about the spell checker built in on a website I use

I know about the google tool bar, but you are right, I realy dislike the thought of a tool bar, just a thing I have for them, some times when I am not rushing to write something, I use notepad++ with the spell check plugin to write my post then copy & paste it, the only thing I have noticed with doing it that way is, sometimes there are paragraphs made where I didn't intend for them, so I have to edit anyway once I have pasted.

Before spellcheckers became standard on most toolbwrs/browsers iespell was the ticket:

http://www.iespell.com/

Appears there hasn't been any development since 2006 though.

I also use IESpell, though it seems to have problems with IE8, so I got rid of IE8 as I would rather have the spell checker. I don't like FireFox's spell checker so I still use IE7 and IESpell on this forum.

We have discussed adding a spell checker for posts. A work in progress.

Great news!

I probably downloaded the Google toolbar when I downloaded Firefox but I'm not using it, only the Bookmarks Toolbar and the Navigation Toolbar. Firefox still spell checks.

I don't trust and I don't like spellcheckers.
Spellcheckers cannot be more intelligent than the ones who design them.
And the ones who design them usually are semi-illiterate people.
I might want to quote Chaucer or Swift, and the stupid robot
probably would not let me do it.

I looked into the possibility of adding to or changing the English dictionary used by Firefox's spellchecker. It turns out there are several choices available. Instructions are at http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using+the+spell+checker#Adding_dictionaries

Spell checkers like IESpell just give you suggestions. You can ignore them easily enough. I would rather catch dumb typos than have to edit them out later. And most have a customizable dictionary to add words or names you use frequently. I 'touch type' most times, and with a laptop KB, it's easy to hit the wrong key.

@ redwudz, I took your advise & installed IESpell, nice tool for IE, see no typos, thanks
Denis

The only thing is, it suggested I change your name to redwoods, LOL

The only reason I ended up with that nick was that redwoods was taken. And when I mistyped a variation and tried redwudz accidently, it worked. Try ' redwudz ' in a internet search, there aren't many of us and I was the first. Where I used to live, there were redwoods everywhere. I had several in my backyard and a few millions of acres of them behind me in the national forest.

You can save words of your choice to the IESpell dictionary easily enough. I like where it sits on the IE taskbar and it's easy to use as it highlights the words it's checking, so you can see if you want to change them or not. IE8 wouldn't do the highlighting, so that made it very difficult to use.

Hey I did a search & there is a redwudz on youtube, is that you? but you are right, that is the only one I could find, very rare, we have here in Australia a tree called "stringy bark" they are all around me, but I can't imagine being called "stringy bark" , how funny would that be.

But getting back on topic, at first when I did the install, it didn't show the button, i figured out I had to add it in the "customize the tool bar" then it appeared. My wife loves it to, it works really nicely, you know how some apps do the job but are really complicated or have to many steps, well this is easy as pie, short & sweet, if you do add spell check to the forums, this is still great for any Internet forms etc

Denis

Glad you like the program and I have never used YouTube.