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Spell Checker for ANY web form
Ok, I know I am going a little bit overboard tonight. Its a blogging trifecta for me 
But as i was writing my previous two posts i ran the spellchecker I realized that I should share this. I am running the vanilla BlogCFC with some cfc additions but I have a spellchecker. In fact I have a spellchecker in any form of any webpage. How you might ask? Well that is a fun story.
Being the good technologist that I am, I took a moment to inspect some of the news regarding COWS AJAX that went around a couple weeks ago. SpellingCow is the first application of the COWS AJAX technology to allow you to have interactive JavaScript calls to a server different from the site specified in the url. And as i read through the SpellingCow site I started playing with their favelet. The favelet allows you to add a link to your bookmarks. When you select this favelet it adds an ajax spellchecker to any text areas on the page.
Super cool for guys like me that cant spell to save their lives. Maybe it can help you too
28 Sep 2006 Simeon
Someone else below asked this already.
I am getting nailed with Spam in my guestbook for our catalog website. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I thought you were using a Powerbook? In which case don’t you have spell-checking in your text fields already?? Very interesting technology though.
Well perhaps i am not using my powerbook to its full potential
I was not aware I could just spell check a text area on a web page using built in tools.
Perhaps you can enlighted me.
thanks
Tom,
I have a post about a relatively simple way to stop spammers… it works great for me:
http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:197.view
Hope that helps,
Ben
Si, that spell checker looks awesome! I can’t wait to investigate. Thanks for posting it.
You could also download Firefox 2.0rc1 which to me is very stable. I am not sure how the spell checker compares but it does work on windows and mac versions.
Fantastic article covering some points I really needed some good usability info for.