You may have heard that Microsoft plans to integrate a spell checking module into their upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10. Up until now, Internet Explorer users had to install third party software like SpeckIE (Spell Check IE) to have spell checking functionality at their disposal in the Internet browser. Users who are interested in [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer

A major user complaint when it comes to Microsoft Internet Explorer’s functionality in general is the lack of a built-in spell checker to automatically correct spelling mistakes in the browser. That’s even more problematic if those users are working with browsers like Firefox as well which come with a built-in spell checker. It is not [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

For most developers, keeping your source code’s comments, error messages, check in notes and even variable names free of spelling mistakes is not the most pressing concern. As a developer and a dreadful speller, I’m one of the worst offenders and have been of the understanding it didn’t matter as the mistakes were kept safely [...]

Categories: Web Development

Firefox, Word, Thunderbird and several other applications all have a build in spell checker that warns the user if a word that was written was not found in the dictionary file. There is however no general spell checker in Windows which means that users have to write their texts in softwares that have a spell checker and copy paste them into the software that has none. Or they could write their texts without spell checking.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows