On 7/20/05, Brian <reflection(a)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.
-- Jamie
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