need Spellchecking for web browser?

CircleFaust · 18 Jun 2008 at 10:03

i was using Iespell

is there anything else out there that integrates into your web browser to check the spelling in dialogue boxes etc

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knowledge123 · 18 Jun 2008 at 10:33

Firefox can, but it seems broken in 3 for me

siclilmonkey · 18 Jun 2008 at 10:46

i got ff3 and its working

knowledge123 · 18 Jun 2008 at 10:51

siclilmonkey said:
i got ff3 and its working

I've checked the preferences, and it is ticked on. :confused:

Also Gmail doesn't show it (underlining) (plain old, plain old,not with the gmail addon).
It's the mac version btw.

Oooooooooooooooooooh! It works for the US version, but not the UK.

siclilmonkey · 18 Jun 2008 at 11:09

this working with me

untick the box restart ff and re tick it. also i think i had to update the dictionary when i moved to ff3

dictionary ver is 1.19

LeperousDust · 18 Jun 2008 at 11:48

Firefox or Opera either will do this for you

Different kinds of implementation though.

paradigm · 18 Jun 2008 at 11:59

IE7 with IE7 PRO.

nikebee · 18 Jun 2008 at 12:19

knowledge123 said:
I've checked the preferences, and it is ticked on. Also Gmail doesn't show it (underlining) (plain old, plain old,not with the gmail addon).
It's the mac version btw.

Oooooooooooooooooooh! It works for the US version, but not the UK.

You may need to update your UK dictionary if that is the case

knowledge123 · 18 Jun 2008 at 12:38

siclilmonkey said:
this working with me
[IM G]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Stevewill6/spell.jpg[/IM G]

untick the box restart ff and re tick it. also i think i had to update the dictionary when i moved to ff3

dictionary ver is 1.19

nikebee said:
You may need to update your UK dictionary if that is the case

Thanks for that, much appreciated ! Sorted!

Here's the link, if anyone else needs it.

modo77 · 18 Jun 2008 at 13:12

paradigm said:
IE7 with IE7 PRO.

Its a great little add on, so many good features.

LeperousDust · 18 Jun 2008 at 13:52

modo77 said:
Its a great little add on, so many good features.

But it makes it so much slower than it already is!

modo77 · 18 Jun 2008 at 14:00

its not slowed it down for me, installed it on a lot of pc's aswell

LeperousDust · 18 Jun 2008 at 14:26

Hmmm, well i dunno, i generally don't use IE, but i thought i'd install it anyway to try and make using IE somewhat less painful when i really have to (because some webmasters can't code their way out of a wet paper box). I didn't enjoy it to say the least, but that could have just been IE! Haha

paradigm · 18 Jun 2008 at 14:26

LeperousDust said:
But it makes it so much slower than it already is!

Hasn't changed the speed of mine.

Only places IE7/8 are slow is with java. But that has nothing to do with IE7PRO addon.

bledd · 18 Jun 2008 at 18:01

ie7 is uselessly slow compared to firefox & opera

fact

paradigm · 18 Jun 2008 at 21:20

No it isn't. Only in Java.

I really wish people wouldn't rave over Firefox, it sucks.

LeperousDust · 18 Jun 2008 at 21:47

Erm, no, it's still much slower at rendering than firefox, and vastly slower than Opera. its just even worse at Java

http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/
Thats a quick google, but theres much more where that come from. For a product so tightly integrated into an OS it sucks balls.

//Edit: Haha, after reading that FF3 doesn't come out too well actually

But my point was with Opera anyway (since that's my browser of choice). Opera is the fastest on the market generally speaking

tolien · 18 Jun 2008 at 22:03

Java != JavaScript. One's run by a plugin (which'll be the same or fairly similar in most browsers), and one's run by the browser. JS powers sites like Gmail too, so it's fairly important...

That page is pretty useless, given it's using Firefox 3 alpha 7. More recent tests put Opera and Fx3 much closer (Opera 9.5 doesn't look so good

), and certainly a long way in front of IE7. On the other hand IE8 narrows the gap a hell of a lot, so who knows what it'll be like come release time.

bledd · 18 Jun 2008 at 22:23

paradigm your head is trully in the sand mate

anyone that uses a web browser extensively (for work) will tell you that IE is rubbish, it's slow as hell and pauses a lot (compared to opera and ff)

paradigm · 18 Jun 2008 at 22:47

bledd. said:
paradigm your head is trully in the sand mate

anyone that uses a web browser extensively (for work) will tell you that IE is rubbish, it's slow as hell and pauses a lot (compared to opera and ff)

I do use it "extensively" for work, and I find quite the opposite to be true.

You seem to be getting a lot wrong this evening.

Perhaps a brush up on your knowledge wouldn't go a miss?