Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Browser notes (section)

=== Textarea tools ===

====Lynx====
*Allows any text editor to be used once the option is set.
====Konqueror====
*Internally highlights misspelled words in textareas.
====Safari====
*Underlines misspelled words in textareas if you check the ''Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling as You Type'' option.  Control-click or right-click for a list of suggested corrections.
====OmniWeb====
*[http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/gallery/content.html#spellchecking Underlines misspelled words] in textareas if you check the ''Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling as You Type'' option and offers more advanced [http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/gallery/content.html#zoom editing options for textareas].
====Internet Explorer====
* [http://www.iespell.com/ IESpell] adds spellchecking to Internet Explorer.
* [http://bur.st/~benc/site/?external External] is a small program that may help you use any external program to edit the textareas in the browser
====Opera====
* Opera 10 and above: inline spelling checking based on the [[OpenOffice.org]] dictionaries called [[Hunspell]].
* pre Opera 10: Supports the spelling checking on Windows and Linux if you install [[GNU Aspell]]. [http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/opera/spellcheck/index.dml?platform=windows Instructions] are available from Opera.

====Mozilla and Firefox====
*[[Universal Edit Button]] adds an extra icon in the [[address bar]] for the editable pages
*'''[http://www.bananeweizen.de/ Wikipedia Extension]'''
**Adds a toolbar with various formatting functions and quicklinks to most Special: pages.
**Not tested on Mac
**Make sure you get the latest version, 0.7.1 as of this writing; download at update.mozilla.org is out-of-date and does not work on 1.0
*'''SpellBound''' adds spellchecking to Firefox, supporting international dictionaries. Download from [http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/ here] for Firefox up to 1.0.x and from [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=351130&highlight=spellbound here] for Firefox 1.5.x. Firefox 2.0.x has spellchecking built in.
*These tools add an option to the browser to use an external editor on a web page textarea.
**'''[http://mozex.mozdev.org/ Mozex''']
***Doesn't support Mozilla on Mac
***Doesn't support Firefox 1.0 as provided (see [http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/FireFox this] for a workaround)
**'''[http://electrix.mozdev.org/ Electrix''']
***Not currently maintained
**'''[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 It's All Text!''']

====Safari====
* '''[http://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/ UnicodeChecker]''' allows in-place conversion of Unicode text to HTML entities and back.  Requires [[OS X Mountain Lion]] (10.8).  Freeware.
** Great for editing text in non-ISO-8859-1 character sets on the English-language Wikipedia (Cyrillic, etc.).
** Works as a system service from a menu (<code>Safari→Services→Unicode→</code>), or keyboard shortcut (<code>command-shift-8</code>).
* '''[http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/ CocoAspell]''' adds international spelling dictionaries to the inline spell-checker.  Freeware.
** Based on UNIX Aspell.