Misspellings via RSS
When you do a Google Toolbar spellcheck while editing a post in WordPress, bad HTML is inserted secretly onto your post. This HTML isn’t visible on your WordPress post, but it does show up via RSS (and when you view the page source) –even after you substitute the green links. If you subscribe via Bloglines, for example, you’d see a big list of the words that you misspelled (or that Google didn’t understand) at the bottom of your post. To fix it, you can just view the HTML of your post while in edit mode and delete all of the Google spellcheck garbage out.
You can see this could be kind of embarrassing, so I thought I’d let you all know. I purposely misspelled a bunch of words and used Google spellcheck on this post so you can see what I’m talking about. Anyway, it’s probably best to spellcheck elsewhere until this is fixed.
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Tags: Google Toolbar, RSS, Software Bugs, Spellchecking, Technology, WordPress
February 24th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Good read! I had no idea about that with the Google Toolbar. You should check out Spellboud and the Mozillia Speelcheck Libraries for Firefox. I use it exclusively when publishing my posts, or anything for that matter. Pretty solid.
February 24th, 2006 at 10:45 am
I obviously didn’t use Spellbound when typing that comment. :)