erik’s weblog

Emil reminded me of Joel Spolsky’s list of things that cannot be well done in a web application

Create a fast drawing program
Build a real-time spell checker with wavy red underlines
Warn users that they are going to lose their work if they hit the close box of the browser
Update a small part of the display based [...]

I knew Emil was playing around with a real time spell checker written in DHTML and it got me very excited. This is probably a big milestone in our field and now that he let the cat out of the box I cannot express my amazement over the talents that this guy has.
See the Real [...]