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• Erik K. Veland - Thursday, March 4, 2004 - link

  And that's why one should use ecto: http://www.kung-foo.tv/ecto

• OoTLInk - Friday, February 27, 2004 - link

  select all, copy.
  
  I do that every time I'm starting to get long on posts... if the browser happens to mess up I can just paste it back in :)

• Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, February 26, 2004 - link

  It wasn't IE's fault, if you want to get specific about the blame it was a code problem because my Add Blog window shared a name with whatever the target of the link I clicked on was. Regardless, I think the retyped one ended up having more info so all is good in the end :)
  
  Tim
  
  I'll buy a Powerbook if Apple can beat my X505's 1.7lbs :)

• Tim - Thursday, February 26, 2004 - link

  IE is way behind the times. You can get it up to the level that Firefox is using third party junk, but why even bother?
  
  Anand - I think this is God's way of telling you that you need a new Powerbook when Apple brings out the new rev in 2 or 3 months. :D

• Anonymous - Thursday, February 26, 2004 - link

  Omniweb has a great inline text editor tool thats the best of both worlds...

• colin - Thursday, February 26, 2004 - link

  how can anyone say there is nothing wrong with IE (for either mac or windows) and keep a straight face?
  
  this app is the posterchild for bug ridden security holes.

• Anonymous - Thursday, February 26, 2004 - link

  I don't know what you people are talking about - IE still works great and had nothing to do with the issue Anand had. Firefox works great too and more power to you if you chose that browser, but it has nothing to do with this issue and there is certainly nothing "wrong" with IE.

• Damien Sorresso - Thursday, February 26, 2004 - link

  Shame on you for using IE on Windows. You should be using Firefox.

• Anonymous - Thursday, February 26, 2004 - link

  Mozilla/Firefox doesn't solve the issue. Like the others have mentioned, only writing in a seperate text editor does. I learned that a long, long time ago ;)

• Anonymous - Thursday, February 26, 2004 - link

  Another vote for using real text editor. the few times it happened to me frustrated me to no end.
  
  as for spell checking: one of the nice things about the frameworks used in native os x development is that all the editable text field objects have spell checking built in. in safari web forms have the check as you type selected by default. you can also turn it on in safari's google search box among other places.
  
  spell checking is one of the services available in any cocoa (native mac os x) application. services are great and while there aren't nearly enough 3rd party services you can find some nice ones. one nice 3rd party service is offered by omniDictionary and has a keyboard shortcut that you hit when you have a word selected and it launches omniDictionary to show the word's definition.