Comments on: Spelling Cow: JS Spell Checker

By: techbabe

techbabe — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:08:46 +0000

Does your spell check tool have any other languages available?

By: Avaness

Avaness — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:27:11 +0000

Alejandro, you can use this one free online spell checker:
http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/
It supports 23 languages, and Spanish also

By: ss

ss — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:06:35 +0000

By: The Solution Cafe

The Solution Cafe — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:24:17 +0000

We have a version of the same thing, but for Internet Explorer and early versions of Firefox as well, http://www.thesolutioncafe.com/ajax-spell-checker.html. It is a commercial product that installs server-side.

Note: we previously posted this information but it appears to have been removed… not sure if Ajaxian removed it because of the commercial nature of our site… but even Ajaxian has advertising on their page so I hope this isn’t the case.

By: Matt Oakes

Matt Oakes — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:57:30 +0000

I love how people say its useless because firefox has it. What if you don’t use firefox.

Thats like saying widgets in Opera are useless because OS X has them. No connection at all.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:10:57 +0000

I think this is great! Most non-technical people aren’t using Firefox so this should work well for my clients’ sites. About 90% of their users are using Internet Explorer or Safari.

By: CrackWilding

CrackWilding — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:46:31 +0000

Criminy, if your users can’t spell, that’s their problem, not yours!

By: The Solution Cafe

The Solution Cafe — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:46:23 +0000

Our ajax spell checker is cross platform compatible... meaning if you want Firefox-like (and better) spell checking capability within Internet Explorer you can simply implement our server-side code... http://www.thesolutioncafe.com/ajax-spell-checker.html we're also multilingual (new open source dictionaries to support the same number of languages), have a medical dictionary (which Firefox does not) and have much more customizability than the built-in Firefox solution. If you're not happy with our suggestion engine then you can change the suggestion algorithm server-side to match the Firefox suggestions.

By: rodrigo

rodrigo — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:17:25 +0000

Firefox spell checker makes this pretty useless

By: Sad Developer

Sad Developer — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:08:18 +0000

with Firefox 2, the spellchecker language selection is accessible from a right-click in the text area where you want to spellcheck… that’s pretty much usable to me! :)

By: Alejandro Moreno

Alejandro Moreno — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:45:53 +0000

My biggest gripe with FF spellcheck is that it’s not easy to use multiple dictionaries. It’s great when I’m writing a comment to a blog, but it’s a pain when I’m emailing my family (in spanish), so I got rid of it.

SpellingCow only says to this respect “75+ languages coming soon,” so I guess I’ll keep waiting for a better web spellchecker.