At 06:57 PM 9/14/02 +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 04:45:48PM -0700, lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
There are some typos and common spelling mistakes which are no-brainers to catch and fix, but require a lot of grunt work. Would it be possible, or desirable, to have a system which does a search for one particular error at a time, eg "recieve", and corrects all the pages it finds in batches, of say 20, to avoid loading the server?
Why doesn't someone just add a function, that before submitting every article/change, it runs a spell checker, writes all the ``mistakes'' and possible ``corrections'' along with an editable field of the article bellow. This way the editor can see his/her mistakes and correct them very easily.
Because some of us find these things very irritating, and rarely run them on software that comes with them. Conversely, those who want such a function can copy the text into a word processor that has it, run the spell-check, and make the changes they want. We don't need to burden our programming team, or our software.