After the Deadline for Firefox
After the Deadline is a powerful and intelligent proofreading tool which checks for spelling errors, misused words, some grammatical gaffes, and even some stylistic issues. For the past month, I’ve been working for Automattic, the company behind AtD and the makers of WordPress.com, to create a Firefox add-on which enables this superior technology everywhere on the web. Words can’t do justice to the magic that is AtD, so here’s a video we put together:
I invite you all to give it a spin:
Working on After the Deadline for Firefox gave me my first experience creating an add-on from the ground up and I’ve learned a lot. After working on Ubiquity and dabbling with Jetpack, it’s given me another perspective on extensibility on the web and I look forward to thinking and writing more about these experiences in the near future.
In the mean time, happy proofreading! 
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Tags: Automattic, code, extensions, firefox, proofreading, spelling
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February 2nd, 2010 at 3:52 am
WOW,This would be great if adapted to Thunderbird. Don't care much if I make a grammatical error in twitter. Much worse if contacting a new prospective client. Webmail /Social networks are "play", Thunderbird is "work".
February 11th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
That is an amazing tool, I just have installed on my PC and it works fine, came back to thank you for this amazing add on. THANKS!!!