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If you are annoyed at the misspellings in other people's pages like me, you wonder "why hasn't someone created a spell checker for incoming webpages?"
There's a spell checker in everything these days, why not the web browser? Even something where you can have a misspelled word identified at a site,
say if I always spelled "professional" wrong at www.fuckmicrosoft.net, you can say "always change this misspelling at www.fuckmicrosoft.net"
Isn't this a great idea?
Speller
http://www.stuffeddog.com/speller/
Speller provides a browser-based interface to check and correct spelling of
arbitrary text that can easily be inserted into an application flow. Future
versions of Speller are planned to provide a simple RPC mechanism that will
allow other web applications to easily hook into Speller's capabilities through
the Internet. [jimfl, Mar 29 2000]
Jeff K!
http://somethingawful.com/jeffk/
This page would probably freeze up the spellcheck program [AfroAssault, Mar 29 2000]
Does spelling matter?
http://news.bbc.co....sid_49000/49182.asp
Fortunately, Mark Twain and (I assume) [Mephista] are in a minority. [angel, Mar 29 2000]
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I think spell/grammar checker should be included on Operating System level... that way, every app could use in in a uniform way. It is tiresome to keep a custom list of special words (foreign place names, in my case) separately for each app. |
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BTW, I like the red underline Word97 uses for misspelled words... |
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I like the green wiggly line that appears under nonsensical or ungrammatical phrases in Word97. I sometimes wish that when someone says something that doesn't make sense a green wiggly line would materialise in mid-air in front of their mouth. |
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Why stop at spell checking? What about dialect checking? I'm often puzzled by some of the Americanisms I encounter on the web. Your browser should be capable of translating American English into proper English English and vice versa. What's a toponim? |
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What about an add-in that can detect and translate regional slang (Scouse, Mancunian, Scottish, Strine, etc.)? Bit of a tall order, but I daresay someone somewhere is working on it... |
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This is a great idea...especially if you are trying to promote your website called www.fuckmicrosoft.net and need an idea in which to make veiled references to that site! |
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<plug> Baked in MacOSX and browsers written for it, such as OmniWeb (which I happen to work on) </plug> |
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