Students have asked about a way to check spelling in the entry body and extended entry in the form we use in these blogs. This morning I happened to use my MS IE browser instead of my trusted Firefox and noticed that I have, at home, the Google Toolbar installed on my browser. Low and behold, it has a spellcheck option that checks the spelling in forms. The entry boxes you type in when creating a blog entry, use HTML forms.
I ran the Google spellcheck on my previous entry and it worked very well. It highlighted in red the words it did not recognize in its dictionary and I could correct them or add them to the dictionary and it no longer highlighted them.
You can download the Google toolbar from Google's more section. I also see that it works with Firefox versions 1.5 and higher. I'll be adding this to my Firefox today too.
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