My wife is taking an online class that has a requirement that she make some number of forum posts on their blackboard. This is not uncommon for online classes to encourage participation. The ridiculous part is that she is required, at the end of her post, she needs to include the number of words she wrote so that the instructor knows the post is long enough. So she ends up launching Word and writing her post over there so she can use the word counter over there to make sure she gets all her words. So I thought I’d be nice and write a little bookmarklet that does this for her:
Drag this link up to your bookmarks bar and click on it and it will tell you the number of words you’ve typed into all of the text areas on the page. It reports the count back using the internal name of the field, but that will usually be enough to figure out which field you’re typing in. It also counts the number of words you have selected in the web page, just because its easy to do. I hope this helps somebody else out there meet arbitrary post length guidelines.