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Title: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: eevblogfan on March 29, 2013, 09:23:09 am
hey

I am sorry if I am posting too many questions lately , busy time ....  :palm:

as for the question - on the title

thank you in advance :P
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: PeterG on March 29, 2013, 09:35:19 am
I could be wrong but i have always considered "Spell Check" to be performed by the browser itself rather than a given website.

Regards
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: EEVblog on March 29, 2013, 10:12:03 am
I didn't know there was a spell checker in the forum?  :-//
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: eevblogfan on March 29, 2013, 10:18:24 am
LOL

there was , shame I didn't took a pic of it  :-//

any how , can it be the new server update ?  :palm:
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: alm on March 29, 2013, 10:31:47 am
Yes, there used to be a spell check button next to the post and preview buttons. I never used it, doesn't any modern browser offer spell check these days?
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: GeoffS on March 29, 2013, 10:40:54 am
Quote from: alm on March 29, 2013, 10:31:47 am
Yes, there used to be a spell check button next to the post and preview buttons. I never used it, doesn't any modern browser offer spell check these days?

According to the SMF site (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=489231.0), it requires that the pspell libraries are installed and the the php config is set correctly. Perhaps this wasn't done on the servier change?
As other have pointed out though, most browsers will take care of this when creating/editing a post.
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: EEVblog on March 29, 2013, 10:41:35 am
Ah, so it does. It's enabled, but it says this "this does not work on all servers!"
So the new server likely doesn't have something installed that not to do with SMF.
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: eevblogfan on March 29, 2013, 12:47:44 pm
Quote from: EEVblog on March 29, 2013, 10:41:35 am
Ah, so it does. It's enabled, but it says this "this does not work on all servers!"
So the new server likely doesn't have something installed that not to do with SMF.

Buger , I used to use that feature !  :palm:
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: onlooker on March 29, 2013, 12:57:50 pm
it looks to me that the spelling check button is gone, and better yet the auto spelling check and correction are on in the same window as one types the post.

if you have not noticed this, you may be better than average (or perfect) in English.
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: IanB on March 29, 2013, 01:13:28 pm
Quote from: eevblogfan on March 29, 2013, 12:47:44 pm
Buger , I used to use that feature !  :palm:

Buger, I used to ues that feture!

There, fixed that for you!  ;)
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: vlf3 on March 29, 2013, 02:30:08 pm
I never noticed before that their was a spell-check button !...  :palm: as far I can recall, before and after the server change, I always had a spell-checker, that still works even now  :-+ on my PC; I live in Jersey the Channel Islands, near France.  ???

Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: SeanB on March 29, 2013, 03:43:27 pm
Firefox has a built in checker, though you do need to change it from US English to UK English, or add in extra dictionaries. Otherwise you do not get colour at all.
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: eevblogfan on March 29, 2013, 03:44:49 pm
I am using Chrome  :-//
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: alm on March 29, 2013, 04:34:24 pm
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95604 (http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95604)
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: eevblogfan on March 29, 2013, 04:43:27 pm
thank you Alm - buy I cant get it work  :palm:

I'll chek that in more detail soon
Title: Re: Am I wrong or dave canceled the "spell check" from the list ?
Post by: G7PSK on March 29, 2013, 07:03:54 pm
From what you say here and your post yesterday, I would say check your search engine, mine was hi-jacked yesterday by something called delta search which is some form of pup.