Spell Checking for your Web Browser

One edge that word processor programs traditionally have had over web browser based editors is spell checking. Many web-based content creation applications, including our own blog authoring software, now include a spell checking feature.

Built-in support for spell checking has been slow to make its way into browsers. Since version 2, Firefox has supported in-line spell checking (those squiggly red underlines you see under suspected misspellings). Internet Explorer 7 doesn't have this feature at all.

Still, that's no excuse to avoid using a browser based editor, because there are easy tweaks that you can employ on both browsers to give you an experience comparable to that of modern word processors.

That's just one more reason to add to the list for not using a word processor as your blog posting software.