Submitted by Paul from i-lign on Mon, 2008-08-25 18:14.
Spell check functionality can be provided most effectively by the browser as otherwise the page itself must be submitted for checking. When filling in forms on other sites you may at times have been presented with an error page e.g. if you have omitted mandatory data, or left gaps in the credit card number field. If we tried to implement a spell checker in this way the application would then need to return a list of alternative words for you to select. It would not provide a satisfactory result as a spell checker particularly if there were multiple errors in the form.
For those who are able to use Firefox it has a built-in spell checker. There are also spell checkers available for Internet Explorer. ieSpell is an example of one of these.
Spell check functionality
Spell check functionality can be provided most effectively by the browser as otherwise the page itself must be submitted for checking. When filling in forms on other sites you may at times have been presented with an error page e.g. if you have omitted mandatory data, or left gaps in the credit card number field. If we tried to implement a spell checker in this way the application would then need to return a list of alternative words for you to select. It would not provide a satisfactory result as a spell checker particularly if there were multiple errors in the form.
For those who are able to use Firefox it has a built-in spell checker. There are also spell checkers available for Internet Explorer. ieSpell is an example of one of these.