From: "Myria"
<myria(a)wolfandturtle.net>
Steven Hilton wrote:
On 7/19/05, Jan Steinman
<Jan(a)bytesmiths.com> wrote:
> With all due respect to the work you have done, I believe spell
> checking is the domain of the client.
> On Safari (MacOS X) at least, client-side
interactive spell checking
> works great with MediaWiki. Does it not in other browers/OSs?
The problem, of course, is that exceedingly few Wiki users...
are going to be apt to have either product (despite the
fact that I list them on my help page).
Mea culpa. <gloat>I just assumed all modern operating systems came
off-the-shelf with built-in, system-wide interactive spelling
correction that works equally well in all applications. (Except for a
few bad Windows ports that ignore system input methods.)</gloat>
(Every time I even think about trying Windows or Linux, something
like this reminds me why I use a Mac.)
I'm really at a loss as to why -- aside from the
seemingly inevitable
naysaying so common to this list -- a server-side spell checker is
such a
bad idea.
Sorry, I did not mean ot be a nay-sayer. It was simply superfluous to
me. I now know why others need such a thing.
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:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van>