One for Hitcher and Firefox 2.0

[Flyingpony]

:woohoo: Hitcher will love this. Firefox 2.0 comes with built in spell checker so people making spelling mistakes on Kiwibiker will shortly become a thing of the past :2thumbsup

[Sniper]

Unless you choose not to use the devils browser. :p

[sAsLEX]

Unless you choose not to use the devils browser. :p

I must have something wrong withithi meeee asssss the spoolcocker dont works

[k14]

yeah i wouldnt use the beta either as its buggy as hell

[Sniper]

Ahhh, as another thought, is it customizable langauge so Hitcher doesnt go insane by the thing using american spelling

[sAsLEX]

yeah i wouldnt use the beta either as its buggy as hell

Only real bug I have found is clicking a link in a page occasionaly returns it to the top of the page and you have to go back down and click it again.

Work slow today?

[Ixion]

Hm. It doesn't seem to work. I downloaded the beta and tried it, by entering some deliberately mis-spelled words, and it didn't pick them up at all.

Other quite correctly spelled words it complained about.

[sAsLEX]

anyone know how to access the spell check functionality in beta 2?

ie turn it on?

[James Deuce]

Make sure you install the UK version or they'll be H.E.L.L. (Hitcher's Evil Leather Lash) to pay.

[Flyingpony]

I downloaded the zipped version of Portable Firefox 2.0rc2. The spell checker worked right out of the box. Most incorrectly spelt words were picked up and get a red wiggle line underneath them.

[Ixion]

So why then, does it NOT red line garage (mis-spelling of gargre), park (should be prak), cruiser (should be crusier). It does red line sportsbike, but also (incorrectly ) redlines the correct spelling. We need a KB version. Well, it is open source, after all .

[Flyingpony]

anyone know how to access the spell check functionality in beta 2?

ie turn it on?
Looks like it might be on automatically for all form pages, i.e. for textarea boxes where you type a new post in.

You can find the British English Dictionary here (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3366/).

[sAsLEX]

cant find the arsing spel checker turn on button ffs

[Hitcher]

Snorts contemptuously. Microsoft Wrod has got a built-in spell checker. It puts wiggly red lines under things it is unsure of. Do people take one blind bit of notice? No. And the poor maligned apostrophe, what about its rights in this TXT world gone mad? And what about people who use the wrong word, even though it may be spelt write?

And as for "American English"... Any country that pixelates out glimpses of butt crack and has coined the word "ass" because an arse is too vulgar and impolite for god-fearing folk to utter, doesn't deserve to be taken seriously. It's pronounced al-u-min-i-um, you dorks!

Either people care or they don't. The BDOTGNZA will fight valiantly onwards!

[sAsLEX]

Tally ho old chaps this spell checker thing now works!

[Coyote]

Whenever I spell ass or airplane it comes out as ass and airplane

[Coyote]

It's pronounced al-u-min-i-um, you dorks!

The metal was originally named Aluminum, but it was changed in the UK to coincide with the rest of the '...ium' named elements. So the merkins are half right

[Hitcher]

The metal was originally named Aluminum, but it was changed in the UK to coincide with the rest of the '...ium' named elements. So the merkins are half right

I'd value some authoritative reference for that claim.

[sAsLEX]

I'd value some authoritative reference for that claim.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

It’s clear that the shift in the USA from –ium to –um took place progressively over a period starting in about 1895, when the metal began to be widely available and the word started to be needed in popular writing. It is easy to imagine journalists turning for confirmation to Webster’s Dictionary, still the most influential work at that time, and adopting its spelling. The official change in the US to the –um spelling happened quite late: the American Chemical Society only adopted it in 1925, though this was clearly in response to the popular shift that had already taken place. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially standardised on aluminium in 1990, though this has done nothing, of course, to change the way people in the US spell it for day to day purposes.

OK I know its only a net source blah blah but it gives some background and this states similar

http://www.world-aluminium.org/history/language.html

and the new source on everything says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum#Spelling


So coyote was right and wrong! Was orig named alumium before going on to the two other spellings and the American use of the middle version stems from the Webster dictionary using that during the materials infancy.

[GR81]

for the lemmings...
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/

[Sniper]

for the lemmings...
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/

They look identical to IE7 RC2

[sAsLEX]

They look identical to IE7 RC2

but free and open source goodness!

[GR81]

i use IE7 in Vista, hasnt given me any problems so far.

although i run FireFox at work.

tabs are the reason why i use firefox, but IE7 has them now... so 'either iether''

[Sniper]

I am a microsoft supported. Microsoft are the greastest, they provide only the best.

GR81, what do you think of Vista?

[TerminalAddict]

apparently IE7 will be in tomorrows "black tuesday" updates as a critical update

[limbimtimwim]

Opera has had a spell checker for a while.

Not that I need one.

And not that I am a big an of Opera, but I have to use it on KB because of all the animated gifs. Firefox crawls on my old nail. Opera seems to keep trucking.

[SPORK]

I am a microsoft supported. Microsoft are the greastest, they provide only the best.

GR81, what do you think of Vista?
...Is that a joke?