Check your spelling with IE7
By Jin Nan Goto
Firefox 2 introduced Inline spellchecking for the browser. This alerts the user of misspelled words and offers suggestions for correcting spelling mistakes. However the worlds most popular browser (Internet Explorer) does not offer this feature.
The lack of any type of spell-checking for form fields in IE is crazy, especially considering that Microsoft has included an Inline spell-check feature in Microsoft Office for years. Since IE doesn’t have this feature natively, you need to use a plug-in to get it. IE7Pro is a very good plug-in for IE that adds a spell-check feature as well as other useful functionality. For instance, ad blocking for instance. While the name includes IE7, it also supports IE6.
Here are instructions for downloading and installing IE7pro.
http://wiki.ie7pro.com/index.php/Download_and_Install_IE7Pro
Screenshot of a form using IE7pro:
The spell-checker works quite well. The performance of IE7Pro doesn’t quite seem as snappy as the spellchecker in Firefox. Although,Firefox supports the inline spell-check natively and not through a plug-in. However if you have to enter a lot of text in IE then it is a very valuable tool.
