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Fifrefox auto-spell checker

KC Oct 24 2006 11:56 AM

For those of you who miss having a spell check here, Firefox 2 (officially release today) has one built in and it works for posting. Pretty neat.

Willets Point Oct 24 2006 12:00 PM

Wy wood eye kneed sumthing lyke thet?

cooby Oct 24 2006 12:00 PM

There's a certain charming irony to this thread

KC Oct 24 2006 12:15 PM

I need a grammar checker in the next release.

Edgy DC Oct 24 2006 12:17 PM

When cooby disses, she disses.

Willets Point Oct 24 2006 12:32 PM

KC wrote: I need a grammar checker in the next release. I'm sure Fifrefox is working on that.

Valadius Oct 24 2006 12:37 PM

Firefox 2 still hasn't been released for Macs though.

KC Oct 24 2006 12:50 PM

Sure it has

cooby Oct 24 2006 12:52 PM

Willets gets me

Willets Point Oct 24 2006 12:54 PM

Ooh, I'm downloading the British version. Then the spellcheck will correct words such as "labour," "centre," and "sport."

Willets Point Oct 24 2006 12:58 PM

I've downloaded it, but can't find the spell check.

MFS62 Oct 24 2006 01:21 PM

Willets Point wrote: Ooh, I'm downloading the British version. Then the spellcheck will correct words such as "labour," "centre," and "sport." They measure their gasoline in litres and their temperature in Celsius. If they play baseball there, they'd measure their home run distances in metres. But what about an announced attendance at a sporting event, such as 17,604? I wonder how many people that would be in American numbers. Later

KC Oct 24 2006 01:30 PM

WP, it's automatic. Compose something in a post a reply window and spell something wrong and it underlines it in red.

metsmarathon Oct 24 2006 01:35 PM

wow. i never have to spell again. does it work for punctuation and capitalization as well? if so, i might just lose all of my unique charm.

Iubitul Oct 24 2006 02:07 PM

Wait - isn't this still the preview release? The main Firefox page still has 1.5 as the official version. I've been playing with V2 for a couple of weeks, and it's ok. I just upgraded to IE 7, and I just have to say, wow. IT stole a lot from Firefox - tabed browsing, and a multi-search engine search window just to name two - but it also smooths the fonts, so everything looks like it's being viewed on a mac...

Willets Point Oct 24 2006 02:08 PM

Internet Explorer is the devil.

metsmarathon Oct 24 2006 02:09 PM

teh crazy thing works!! but how will it deal with things like Carlos Beltran? or carlos beltran oh ok. so if you capitalize the first letter, it no longer spell checks. it also doesnt consider "ok" to be a correctly spelled word, preferring instead for it to be capitalized.

metirish Oct 24 2006 02:11 PM

] teh crazy thing works!! apparently it doesn't :)

Iubitul Oct 24 2006 02:22 PM

Willets Point wrote: Internet Explorer is the devil. I always agreed with that, but I have to also test my code in IE, because most of the great unwashed still use it...

seawolf17 Oct 24 2006 02:30 PM

I'm a big fan of Firefox. My wife converted me a few months back, and now I use it almost exclusively.

Willets Point Oct 24 2006 02:36 PM

metirish wrote: ] teh crazy thing works!! apparently it doesn't :) It does, it tells you what you need to correct but doesn't make the corrections for you so if you wish to spell things incorrectly you can do so.

metirish Oct 24 2006 02:38 PM

My bad....

KC Oct 24 2006 02:38 PM

Rel 2 was supposed to go live today, technically I have the pre-release too, Iubital. But if you check for updates, there aren't any. And yes, the new IE does seem to have a lot of Firefox features just with a prettier look to it.

metsmarathon Oct 24 2006 02:55 PM

yeah, it'll tell me when i misspell something, but it doesn't do a damned thing about it. at least it recognizes curse words. or at least the popular ones. it bugs me, being in the army biz, that i always have to tell my spell checkers that when i type fuze i mean fuze, and not fuse, and that there is a difference. oh well. at least it recognizes munitions. word doesn't.

soupcan Oct 24 2006 03:30 PM

="MFS62"] ="Willets Point"]Ooh, I'm downloading the British version. Then the spellcheck will correct words such as "labour," "centre," and "sport." They measure their gasoline in litres and their temperature in Celsius. If they play baseball there, they'd measure their home run distances in metres. But what about an announced attendance at a sporting event, such as 17,604? I wonder how many people that would be in American numbers. Later MFS needs a 'FunnyCheck'. Someone make sure and tell him when that's released.

metsmarathon Oct 24 2006 05:03 PM

Willets Point wrote: Ooh, I'm downloading the British version. Then the spellcheck will correct words such as "labour," "centre," and "sport." wait... sport?

Willets Point Oct 24 2006 06:23 PM

British newspapers and newscasters talk about 'sport' in plural where in the US we say 'sports.' Examples: UK US

metirish Oct 24 2006 06:42 PM

Willets I never noticed that before....you're kinda weird..

ScarletKnight41 Oct 24 2006 09:55 PM

I just downloaded it on my laptop. I'll put it on my PC if this works out. I may learn to love the spell checker.

metirish Oct 24 2006 09:57 PM

is this really worth it, I mean yeah I could use it but is it all that? And I spell things different that you lot...like honour,humour....well I do sometimes anyway..

ScarletKnight41 Oct 24 2006 10:09 PM

Well, since I post for school, the spell check becomes more important to me.

metirish Oct 24 2006 10:10 PM

Oh so you are saying that my thought provoking posts here are not as important as yours for school....I see it now.....

ScarletKnight41 Oct 24 2006 10:14 PM

My thought provoking posts here aren't as important as my thought provoking thoughts for school either ;)

metirish Oct 24 2006 10:15 PM

Wat too much thought-ing going on in that post.....:)

ScarletKnight41 Oct 25 2006 07:48 AM

The new Firefox loads faster - that's good. The only inconvenience I've found is that if I aim lazily to check a tab I sometimes accidentally hit the red X and close it instead. I preferred it when you had to be more affirmative about closing tabs.

cooby Oct 25 2006 08:13 AM

I''ve always found that this paperback dictionary here on my desk is effective at checking my spelling. No mess, no fuss. Also Dictionary.com if you insist on being high tech.

ScarletKnight41 Oct 25 2006 08:23 AM

[url=www.m-w.com]Merriam-Webster[/url] is a good online dictionary.