ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application. The program installs as a new button in the IE toolbar (as well as a new menu item under "Tools") - after filling in a form, just hit the ieSpell button and it pops up a dialog, similar to the MS Word spell check.
Change log:
- major code refactoring to facilitate upcoming features
- allow user to create/add/remove custom dictionaries
- allow user to edit contents of custom dictionaries easily thru" built-in UI
- allow user to select more than one custom dictionaries
- custom dictionaries can be located anywhere in the file system hence you may even share them over the network using UNC!
- share your custom dictionary with Microsoft Word!
- new spell check option added - ignore words with numbers (e.g. Win95)
- new spell check option added - ignore html markups and escape sequences
- added online lookup of word feature (Useful if you have always wondered what that strange looking word in the suggestion list means!)
- ieSpell now ignores html text boxes that are hidden on the page
- added a licensing module for users to register their licensed copy of ieSpell.
- and a whole lot more!