One of our departments uses a bespoke case-management database which has an HTML front end. They would like to be able to spell-check the stuff they enter into this database. Our programmers have said that to code a spell checker into the HTML would cost more than we are prepared to spend, and so we are looking into purchasing one of several plug-ins to IE that will do the job…
Some of the available options a quick search reveals include: IESpell, HotLingo, FedSpell, JSpell and XDE.net
The only requirements would be that it can check the spelling in Forms, and can handle British spellings.
I am wondering whether anyone out there has used any IE spell checker and has an opinion on ease of use/value for money…
Plugins are client-side apps whereas it looks like what you want is a server-side app that can check the spelling. Unless you mean that individual users would be checking the spelling as they type, in that case, you can’t force anybody to download a plugin they dont want. If your looking for client side, there are several quite good open source spell checkers with dictionaries from every concievable language.
Yep, I downloaded and installed http://www.iespell.com/
"] ieSpell about six-eight months ago. Very handy for us dyslexics. It’s free, no problem downloading it and it’s easy to use . . . I don’t know what else people might want in such a tool but it does what it says on the tin – maybe it could remind me to check because I do forget, but otherwise . . .
Server-side would obviously be preferable, but it looks like the cost to develop is going to prohibit that. There are just 10 staff in this department, and a couple of people who work remotely, so installing and maintaining a client-side plugin won’t be too much of an ordeal…