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 ...

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 ...