SpellBound

06 Oct 2004

I was reading Michael Heilemann’s blog, Binary Bonsai today, and stumbled across a comment linking to the website of a spell checker for Firefox, entitled “Spellbound”. I would normally link and pingback the post without a second thought, but I fear he’d object to my irrelevant pingback, especially given the nature of the post in which the comment lies!

*carefully unticks “PingBack” check box*

That’s better. The comment in question recommends SpellBound for anyone commenting on other, or operating their own, blogs. It’s a nifty little plug-in for Firefox, which checks the contents of the active textarea or field of a form when the user presses Ctrl + Shift + F7 (Cmd + Shift + F7 for Mac people), or right-clicks the area in question and selects “Check Spelling”.

I don’t need to tell you this — their webpage does it, just fine. Usage instructions are on their front page, so go download it and stop making spelling mistakes when posting content!

Now, if only someone would develop a plugin that validated the code in comments as WELL as spellchecking… my life would be perfect!

(Well, not really… significantly improved, though.)