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RichardKinser
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USA
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Posted - 27 September 2004 :  20:20:45  Show Profile
There is ieSpell for Internet Explorer

Now there is SpellBound for Firefox: http://spellbound.sourceforge.net

I don't think it supports invoking the spellchecker via a button like you can with ieSpell yet. At least I couldn't find anything mentioning it.

Davio
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Jamaica
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Posted - 28 September 2004 :  10:45:59  Show Profile
Oh man. I forgot to have posted about it here.

Yeah, I have been using SpellBound for quite a bit now. A very handy tool and loving it. All you need to do is right click in the form you are typing your message and select "Check Spelling". It loads very quickly.

I have had no problems with it so far and have no complaints. Recommend it to all firefox users who post a lot.

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Nathan
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Posted - 01 October 2004 :  02:19:28  Show Profile  Visit Nathan's Homepage
Especially those like me who can't spell beans.

Nathan Bales
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RichardKinser
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USA
16655 Posts

Posted - 01 October 2004 :  02:28:23  Show Profile
another Firefox (Preview Release) related feature... I added the following to the header of this forum:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://forum.snitz.com/forum/rssfeed.asp" title="Active Topics on Snitz Forums 2000">
so you should see the "RSS" button in the lower right hand corner of the browser window.
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Davio
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Jamaica
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Posted - 01 October 2004 :  03:05:07  Show Profile
That works only for Firefox Preview Release. Older versions of Firefox don't support RSS feeds.

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RichardKinser
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USA
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Posted - 01 October 2004 :  03:17:22  Show Profile
I added that to my post above, wasn't aware of that.
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Astralis
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USA
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Posted - 01 October 2004 :  05:15:29  Show Profile  Send Astralis a Yahoo! Message
What happens if there are more than two feeds at once? Just keep adding more link tags?

I'm impressed Richard is on top of this! I wondered about this today too!
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RichardKinser
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USA
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Posted - 01 October 2004 :  05:16:57  Show Profile
yes, just add more tags..
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Davio
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Jamaica
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Posted - 04 October 2004 :  22:55:53  Show Profile
Richard, how often is the RSS feed updated?

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RichardKinser
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USA
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Posted - 04 October 2004 :  23:00:45  Show Profile
rssfeed.asp pulls the data directly from the database just like active.asp does. It should always be current with the last 15 active topics (hidden/protected forums aren't included).
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Davio
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Jamaica
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Posted - 04 October 2004 :  23:09:50  Show Profile
Oh? So I would need to refresh my Live Bookmark to get the latest active topics?

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RichardKinser
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USA
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Posted - 04 October 2004 :  23:11:10  Show Profile
I think so. You just need to right click on the Live Bookmark in your Bookmarks list and choose "Refresh Live Bookmark".
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RichardKinser
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USA
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Posted - 05 October 2004 :  19:12:05  Show Profile
The Live Bookmarks should also update each time you open Firefox.
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RichardKinser
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Posted - 01 December 2004 :  20:19:27  Show Profile
There is a new version of SpellBound available. (0.7.1), they have added the ability to invoke the spellchecker using a button on the webpage (much like ieSpell), I haven't really looked at how it's done yet though.

Ideally, the Spellcheck MOD that we use on this site would differentiate between IE and Firefox/Mozilla, and display a button specific for each. If anyone wants to take a stab at it, feel free to. I'm going to look into it also and see what I can come up with, but it won't be anytime soon.
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dayve
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Posted - 01 December 2004 :  20:51:44  Show Profile  Visit dayve's Homepage
quote:
Originally posted by RichardKinser

I don't think it supports invoking the spellchecker via a button like you can with ieSpell yet. At least I couldn't find anything mentioning it.

I was wondering if we could use this to customize an invoke button:

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/dev

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RichardKinser
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USA
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Posted - 01 December 2004 :  21:06:14  Show Profile
There is an example shown here:

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/faq#q02

In the source of the page, they have this (in the page <head></head> section):
<script type="text/javascript"><!--//--><![CDATA[//><!--
  function focusChange(evt) {
    if (typeof evt.originalTarget == "undefined") {
      document.getElementById("spellboundSC_btn").disabled = false;
    } else if (!evt.originalTarget.hasAttribute
    || !evt.originalTarget.hasAttribute("id")
    || evt.originalTarget.hasAttribute("id")
    && evt.originalTarget.getAttribute("id") != "spellboundSC_btn") {
        document.getElementById("spellboundSC_btn").disabled = true;
    }
  }
  window.addEventListener("focus",focusChange,false);
//--><!]]></script>


and to show the button they use this:
      <input type="text" name="testinput" class="testelems" size="1"
        onfocus="focusChange(this);" value="This is an HTML input element" alt="HTML input element" /><br /><br />
      <textarea name="testtext" class="testelems" cols="1"
        onfocus="focusChange(this);"
        rows="3">This is an HTML textarea element. If you had SpellBound installed you would be able to spell check this text.</textarea>
      <br />
      <input id="spellboundSC_btn"
      onclick="alert('You need SpellBound installed to spell check using this button.\n\nhttp://spellbound.sourceforge.net/');"
      disabled="true" type="button" value="Spell Check" title="Spell check with SpellBound" />


not really ideal because you have to add the onfocus="focusChange(this);" to each element that you want to be able to spellcheck. And it only will check the element that currently has focus.
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