From: Brian reflection@gmail.com
There is an additional problem with client-side spell chekers. If you use spellbound on an article that has html or css in it, it will attempt to check all of the attributes which becomes very annoying...
The speller built into MacOS X seems to be smarter than that. Example at:
http://www.bytesmiths.com/stuff/SpellExample.gif
But this is pretty far off-topic, and some defensive people probably view it as flame bait. It is not intended as such. I'll be quiet now.
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You have to realize that many folks are using multiple operating systems. On a given day I am on XP, FC4, and OSX. While I applaud a mac tool, the real fault is in writing tools that don't work natively on all operating systems. That's where a server-side app comes in handy.
On 7/20/05, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:
From: Brian reflection@gmail.com
There is an additional problem with client-side spell chekers. If you use spellbound on an article that has html or css in it, it will attempt to check all of the attributes which becomes very annoying...
The speller built into MacOS X seems to be smarter than that. Example at:
http://www.bytesmiths.com/stuff/SpellExample.gif
But this is pretty far off-topic, and some defensive people probably view it as flame bait. It is not intended as such. I'll be quiet now.
:::: You can't have your SUV and eat it, too! :::: (It takes TEN calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce EACH calorie of food.) :::: Jan Steinman http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van
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By the way, you missed the real test case in your spell checker - you really have to plan for the most complex case - an amalgamation of wikimarkup, html, and css:
{| width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" style="border: 1px; border-color: #666; border-style: solid;" |- bgcolor="#0BA8A8" | width="22%" |<div align="center">'''<font color="#FFFFFF">Who</font>'''</div> | width="70px"|<div align="center">'''<font color="#FFFFFF">Image</font>'''</div> | width="20%" |<div align="center">'''<font color="#FFFFFF">When</font>'''</div> | width="58%" |<div align="center">'''<font color="#FFFFFF">What</font>'''</div>
On 7/20/05, Brian reflection@gmail.com wrote:
You have to realize that many folks are using multiple operating systems. On a given day I am on XP, FC4, and OSX. While I applaud a mac tool, the real fault is in writing tools that don't work natively on all operating systems. That's where a server-side app comes in handy.
On 7/20/05, Jan Steinman <Jan@bytesmiths.com > wrote:
From: Brian <reflection@gmail.com >
There is an additional problem with client-side spell chekers. If you use spellbound on an article that has html or css in it, it will attempt to check all of the attributes which becomes very annoying...
The speller built into MacOS X seems to be smarter than that. Example at:
http://www.bytesmiths.com/stuff/SpellExample.gif
But this is pretty far off-topic, and some defensive people probably view it as flame bait. It is not intended as such. I'll be quiet now.
:::: You can't have your SUV and eat it, too! :::: (It takes TEN calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce EACH calorie of food.) :::: Jan Steinman < http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van%3E
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On 7/20/05, Brian reflection@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, you missed the real test case in your spell checker - you really have to plan for the most complex case - an amalgamation of wikimarkup, html, and css:
[snip]
No!!!!! Not another parser to write!!! *cries*
I have to comment on the "modern" browser/natve capabilities discussion. My school still has labs of Mac OS 9 (maybe older) computers. They have very old versions of IE and Netscape. (Netscape doesn't even have CSS support; using Wikipedia or a number of other sites is be a hassle.) I haven't taken a survey, but I am sure there are many, many people that use an outdated browser at least some of the time.
As modern browsers go, they're across the board. We all know IE doesn't have anything but bugs built in. Firefox/Mozilla are flexable and can do a lot, but they don't come with a great many bells/wistles. I can't say about Opera, since I don't use it.
Mac OS has always had tight integration between the OS and apps, so it comes as no surprise that things like system-wide spell checking is there.
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