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[guitarville]

spell check

I don't think it works too good

[blue2blue]

What is really a drag is that the edit form (usually) prevents better working, instant spell-check built into browsers.

Another step backward.

You don't improve user experience by denying them the tools they depend on, tools that work elsewhere and worked in the old system.

[Dinkleberg]

My spell check plugin for Firefox doesn't work with this site. It's the only site I'm aware of where it doesn't work. :mad:

[lefort_1]

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Dinkleberg wrote:

My spell check plugin for Firefox doesn't work with this site. It's the only site I'm aware of where it doesn't work. :mad:

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Oh, didn't you hear? Firefox has been taken off the supported-browsers list. Turns out their users expect too much.

:wink:

[guitarville]

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lefort_1 wrote:

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Dinkleberg wrote:

My spell check plugin for Firefox doesn't work with this site. It's the only site I'm aware of where it doesn't work. :mad:

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Oh, didn't you hear? Firefox has been taken off the supported-browsers list. Turns out their users expect too much.

:wink:

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Are you serious

[lefort_1]

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guitarville wrote:

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lefort_1 wrote:

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Dinkleberg wrote:

My spell check plugin for Firefox doesn't work with this site. It's the only site I'm aware of where it doesn't work. :mad:

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Oh, didn't you hear? Firefox has been taken off the supported-browsers list. Turns out their users expect too much.

:wink:

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Are you serious

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No, sorry, my apologies.

The lack of expressive smilies makes the intenet-expression of irony/sarcasm/jackasm very difficult.

In the future I will try to restrain myself.... but I sincerely doubt I will attain that goal.

[blue2blue]

In addition to blocking the superior, real-time spell check of browsers, this form spell check substitute rather peculiarly tries to correct spelling inside quotes.

This is -- of course -- compltely unacceptable -- as quotes must stay intact as the original writer wrote them.

Seriously, this is just incomprehensible. 

What is the excuse for this? 

How could the people tasked to design these elaborate forums have so little apparent understanding of how BBs work?

And, really now, such a feature would not be any different on a customer service BB than a general interest one.

ALSO... when the dorky built-in spell check is grinding through your post -- you generally can't see the actual usage in context. So when it flags a perfectly valid spelling of a real word not in its dictionary, it becomes that much harder to know what's happening. And it makes spell-checking a post with a quote just plain nutty.

Really, this spell-check is all but unusable.