On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 03:32:06PM -0400, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
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.
But you can't deny that the problem is there. I think most people wouldn't cut&past it into their spellchecker but they would correct it if they saw their mistakes directly on the screen.
Hynek