To err is human
June 20, 2011 10:05 AM   Subscribe

I need to find a way to have my browser (either Chrome or Firefox) automatically detect spelling errors within the text fields on my company's website.

I work in digital publishing. We have an online platform that we use to publish educational courses.

Implementing courses often means copying text from pdfs into our text editor. This leads to many problems with formatting, many of which would be caught by a spellchecker. The team doing this work is very good at what they do but are not native English speakers. What would really help us out is a sort of spellchecker that would help identify for that team any errors that result from pasting text from pdf (mashed together words, doubled-up spaces, etc.). That would allow them to do a bit of quality control on their end.

I've tried using the built-in spellcheckers for Chrome and Firefox, played with the settings, and while the browser does spell check in plain text forms, it does not work for our RTE fields unless you right click and specifically tell it to check that particular field. That's not good enough, since I'd like the browser to automatically detect any errors for any inputted text.

One thing I've done in Firefox is gone into "about:" and changed the spellchecker setting to 2 (per a forum post I saw earlier today). This allowed the spellchecker to automatically check text I enter into plaintext web forms, but not for RTE.

The type of editor we use is, I think, is WYSYWIG, based on TinyMCE (although I have little knowledge of what these terms really mean!). I'm an editor, not a programmer, and our software development team is too busy at the moment to advise.

The ultimate goal here is some sort of plugin or browser setting that I can give to the implementation team that will allow them to do a quick pruning on the massive amounts of text they are pasting into our RTE fields.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks for any and all help!
posted by mammary16 to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)
 
You're looking for After the Deadline extension for chrome.
posted by ttyn at 10:27 AM on June 20, 2011


Response by poster: ttyn - Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work for me. :( I just installed After the Deadline, and it doesn't seem to work in the RTE field, even when I select "Check form contents before submission".
posted by mammary16 at 12:29 PM on June 20, 2011


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