Chrome 26 hits beta with a new spell-checking engine

Hard on the heels of last week's release of the Chrome 25 browser into the Stable Channel, Google on Tuesday pushed its eventual successorâ€"Chrome 26â€"into beta. Whereas Chrome 25 was most notable for its inclusion of a new JavaScript Web Speech application programming interface (API)â€"allowing developers to include speech recognition features in their applicationsâ€"the new Chrome 26 beta stands out primarily for its use of a new spell-checking engine. “Today’s Chrome Beta release brings improved spell checking to the browser,” wrote Google software engineer Rachel Petterson in a Tuesday blog post. Syncing the custom dictionary To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here