W3C Spell Checker for http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/w3c10-HowItAllStarted/all.html

Status

This tool allows you to check the spelling of a web page. It currently only supports English and French.

Usage

Errors found in the page

1. "ARPANET"
2. "Andreessen"
3. "Andreesson"
4. "BBN"
5. "Berners"
6. "CERN"
7. "Cosnard"
8. "Courmettes"
9. "DNS"
10. "Dertouzos"
11. "Dougherty"
12. "Dubost"
13. "ERB"
14. "ERCIM"
15. "Englebart"
16. "Enquire"
17. "Erwise"
18. "Gifford"
19. "INRIA"
20. "JFA"
21. "Kahn"
22. "Keio"
23. "Kotok"
24. "LCS"
25. "Lacroix"
26. "Licklider"
27. "Masinter"
28. "Memex"
29. "Mockapetris"
30. "NCSA"
31. "NLS"
32. "O'Reilly"
33. "Pre"
34. "Raggett"
35. "Richman"
36. "Sollins"
37. "TBL"
38. "TCP"
39. "TimBL"
40. "TimBL's"
41. "Tomlinson"
42. "Vannevar"
43. "Vint"
44. "WS"
45. "WorldWideWeb"
46. "Zilles"
47. "pre"
48. "th"

See also

• the QA Toolbox

References

• Aspell is used in the back-end
• The front-end is coded in Python

Known bugs and limitations

• Doesn't handle language switching on the lang and xml:lang attributes
• Doesn't check textual attributes (e.g. title, alt)