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ieSpell Changelog

What's new in ieSpell 2.6.4 Build 573

Feb 20, 2010
  • FIX - issue with spell checking large documents (>30k characters) with lots of custom tags (e.g. Wikipedia pages). The text parsing code was rewritten to make it more robust and alot quicker too.

New in ieSpell 2.6.3 Build 814 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • FIX - Reverted "Check Spelling" in Internet Explorer's right click menu to show up all the time.
  • FIX - Fixed UAC problem for license registration.
  • FIX - Silent install/uninstall not completely silent.
  • FIX - Highlighting may go wrong when the same mis-spelling word exists in different case.
  • FIX - Minor resource leak in the Spellcheck Validator dialog box.

New in ieSpell 2.5.0 Build 185 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • NEW - Extended "Lookup Meaning" feature to ANY number of online search services!
  • NEW - Allow each user to maintain their own custom online dictionary list.
  • NEW - Installer now adds "Lookup on Merriam Webster" and "Lookup on Wikipedia" in IE's right click menu by default.
  • FIX - Bug: Browser window spawned by "Lookup Meaning" feature does not have scroll bars.

New in ieSpell 2.3.0 Build 264 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • NEW - Allow user to change the location of the custom dictionary (either copy or move) in the "Edit Custom Dictionary" dialog.
  • NEW - Added persistent window placement (survive shutdown) with a user override option (default is on).
  • NEW - add installer switch to set a custom user dictionary location during installation.
  • FIX - Make Default button is no longer enabled when a selected custom dictionary is READ-ONLY.
  • FIX - Bug that cause ieSpell to think that a non-existent custom dictionary is read-only.
  • FIX - Memory leak in spell checker - options object not freed at shutdown.
  • FIX - Improved support for optional language packs.

New in ieSpell 2.1.1 Build 325 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • NEW - ieSpell now has an option to ignore words with underscore in them.
  • NEW - added support for HTMLArea2 (a freeware HTML rich text editor).
  • FIX - does not work if ShowModalDialog does not contain a full markup document (i.e. without enclosing tags).
  • FIX - missed spelling errors if the sentence contains line breaks without preceding spaces in them.

New in ieSpell 2.1.0 Build 552 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • NEW - ieSpell now ignores tags that has the style="visibility:hidden" set.
  • NEW - ieSpell now ignores tags that has DISABLED attribute specified.
  • NEW - ieSpell now ignores tags that has the custom attribute "ieSpell_ignored" attribute specified. (note: custom attribute is case-insensitive.)
  • NEW - added support for scripts to hide the "Spell check complete" dialog at the end of a spell check. (use the new methods CheckAllLinkedDocuments2 and CheckDocumentNode2)
  • NEW - added support for scripts to receive a FALSE status code should the user cancel the spell check. (use the new methods CheckAllLinkedDocuments2 and CheckDocumentNode2)
  • NEW - added support for DIV tags
  • NEW - added support for ShowModalDialog
  • FIX - Removed custom dictionary entries will reappear in the list box of ieSpell Options after closing the dialog.
  • FIX - ignore words in MixedCase does not work as advertised.
  • FIX - license file must be in the same directory as the installer if specified in an install script.

New in ieSpell 2.0.0 Build 577 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • major code refactoring to facilitate upcoming features.
  • ieSpell now ignores html text boxes that are hidden on the page.
  • added online lookup of word feature. Useful if you have always wondered what that strange looking word in the suggestion list means!
  • new spell check option added - ignore words with numbers. (e.g. Win95)
  • new spell check option added - ignore html markups and escape sequences. (e.g. , &nsbp;)
  • allow user to create/add/remove custom dictionaries.
  • allow user to edit contents of custom dictionaries easily through built in UI.
  • allow user to select more than one custom dictionaries.
  • custom dictionaries can be located anywhere in the file system hence you may even share them over the network using UNC paths!
  • share your custom dictionary with Microsoft Word!
  • dialogs now uses System Fonts so that they don't look broken in Win95.
  • added some command line options to the installer. Use /S for silent, /UK or /US or /CA for setting the default dictionary to something other than US.
  • added a licensing module for users to register their licensed copy of ieSpell.
  • and lots more minor enhancements and fixes!

New in ieSpell 1.1.0 Build 553 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Fixed an uninstall bug that managed to slip into v1.1 (build 532) - ieSpell failed to remove its shortcuts from IE's menu bar.

New in ieSpell 1.0.0 Build 429 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Added ieSpell Options Dialog. You can now customize the behavior of the spelling check such as the number and type of dictionaries to use, suggestion mode and so on.
  • Added support for "rich edit" fields. (In these fields, you can change the text's font, size, style and etc).
  • Added support for IE's context (a.k.a. right-click) menu.
  • Added support for IE based browsers (e.g. MSN, AOL, NetCaptor and NeoPlanet) through the use of the context menu.
  • Added a number of ignore filters such as words in URLs, all uppercase letters, mixed case letters, accents, and others.
  • Fixed inter-frame security bug. (ieSpell fails to detect text fields in frames that reside in a domain different from the main URL)

New in ieSpell 0.9.2 Beta Build 246 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Added ability to spell-check a selected block of text (the selected block must be within an input field).
  • Fixed a null pointer error which will cause IE to crash when ieSpell is run in a page (with frames) contains empty documents.
  • Renamed all references to "ieSpell Checker" as "ieSpell" to make branding consistent. This also effectively fix the IE toolbar icon spacing issue. (Occurs when "Show text labels" is selected)
  • Updated ieSpell's URL in the About dialog.

New in ieSpell 0.9.1 Beta Build 79 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Added ability to handle documents with frames. This effectively fixed issues when using ieSpell with web mails/forums that rely on frames (such as yahoo mail).
  • Fixed the problem of highlighting partial or incorrect words on the page. Note that the word being checked by the spell checker is correct though.
  • Cosmetic change involving the use of "Tahoma" font instead of "MS Sans Serif" font by the dialog boxes so that they look better on XP systems with ClearType turned on.