Afloat - window floating and transparency at the stroke of a key

#10: Yes, GeekBind does the same thing, but it doesn't look like it's a Universal Binary, which Afloat is.

echindnae: Rats, just as I suspected. The spellchecking works in forms like this one, but it gets overridden in our CMS post editing window, I would imagine because of the custom rich text tools they've built into it. The red underlining doesn't even show up in there (but it works in this form here).

Oh well, at least I have a Camino that will do *some* spell checking. Thanks!

David:

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. Like Firefox, Camino's devs make nightly builds available each day at this url:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/camino/nightly/

You can just download the actual app there, no getting the source and building yourself required. The builds that have the spellcheck in them are the ones marked "trunk" and "1.1-M1.8/". The latter is what Camino 1.1 will be, eventually. The other builds, marked "1.0-M1.8.0/" is what Camino 1.0.2 uses, and that won't have spell check. I've been using the latest "1.1-M1.8" build for today, and it seems to be working fine, so that's what you'd want to download. Sorry for the confusion...I know this can be confusing!

#10: I just went to GetCamino.org/development, is that the latest nightly you're talking about? It's downloading as I type this. Let me know if I need to get/build it from somewhere else, and feel free to share some details; I've never grabbed source and built my own copy of anything.

Thanks for the tip.

David, Camino's nightly trunk builds on the branch and trunk have spell checking currently implemented in form fields like the one I'm typing this comment in. I haven't tried Firefox's spellchecking, but I do know they are dependent on some of the same code in both browsers, so I'm not sure what's different in the implementation in both browsers.

Just throwing that out there for ya :)

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/14862

GeekBind does this too : ]

Afloat is a wonderful little app. Two thumbs up for the developper !

Ted does have a valid point. In the age of OS-level spell-checking, this should more or less be a thing of the past.

I'm trying to re-tool my blogging workflow to try and work around some of our limitations; right now, the only browsers we can usefully blog in are Firefox and Camino - neither are spell-checking aware. The Firefox 2 beta is, but its implementation is wonky and it gets overridden by rich-text browser input systems, which renders the spell checking useless.

Personally, I'm trying to get in the habit of writing my posts in external Cocoa apps. I'm bouncing between using Journler and Yojimbo, though I'm leaning towards Journler because of its far greater organization features (smart folders, labels, etc.).

Rhetoric aside: I apologize for the errors, and rest assured we're working to make a better, spell-checked TUAW for you.

"These are the posts people who don't get all gooey in the nether regions just because something is about Macs but still use their Mac with relish read this blog for."

What? Did you have your mouth full as you were saying that?

Anyway... regarding the misspellings and constant grammar mistakes -- you guys seriously need to get a handle on this. Scott, Dave. Please, it's embarrassing. You get paid for this. Do a professional job.

Will the spelling checkers close their pie-holes, please. These are the posts people who don't get all gooey in the nether regions just because something is about Macs but still use their Mac with relish read this blog for. This is good information, even if it is gooood infomratiob.