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Elegant spellchecker in Gmail

In my previous webmail client, I almost never ran the spellchecker because it was painfully slow. In fact, nearly every basic operation in SquirrelMail required a trip to the server. (Opening spam I thought was a legitimate message was one of the biggest and most time-consuming disappointments I faced every morning.) Google's Gmail has eradicated this delay, through clever CSS and inbox message snippets. One of my favorite features is Gmail's spellchecker. All potential misspellings are highlighted in situ, so tedious serial OKing isn't necessary.