Sunday, October 10, 2004

SpellBound - Spell Checker for Firefox

SpellBound is a port of the spell checker user interface from Mozilla's Composer that enables spell checking in web forms (e.g. html textarea and html input elements - html input password elements are not checked by SpellBound - wysiwyg rich text forms). This allows you to spell check forms (e.g. message board post, blog, etc.) before submitting them when using Firefox. There are no special system requirements beyond those to run Firefox 0.9 or above and it has been verified to work with Windows, Linux, and MacOS X.

Since the vast majority of the code is the same as the Mozilla spell checker it by nature has all of the same spell checking goodness and is also able to utilize the same language files which has made it possible for SpellBound to be available in 43 languages.

SpellBound has also been developed with other extension developers in mind so they are able to easily add spell checking to their own extensions. The original intention behind the creation of SpellBound was to provide a spell checker for the Deepest Sender extension as a separate extension. It was designed for not only users, but extension developers can also easily utilize it.

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