Stardock forums incompatible with Firefox spellcheck?

Yeah .. it's a bummer.

But you know . .it's the thought that counts, right?

Known issue with the (third party) postbox we use. IIRC we had some plans to implement a spellcheck for everyone via google, but it's not a high priority due to the already heavy load on the web team.

I had to look up how to spell "acommodate"

accomodate >.>

Accommodate.

notice the "quotes" around "acommodate"

Perhaps it's because I KNOW it's accommodate?

That's odd, the firefox spellcheck works just fine here. I just use Control-rightclick to access the default menu, including the spellcheck options/suggestions, and a normal right-click to access the specific controls of this edit box.

Firefox has a spellcheck?

Is 'ors' even a word?

Or's would be the punctuated word form of 'or is', or 'or us' perhaps.

Spell checkers are not punctuation checkers, after all. 'Ors' is not a proper word. Learn how to spell and punctuate, and your problems will be over.

http://www.merriam-webster.com is your friend.

As in "buts, ifs and ors"?

http://dictionary.reference.com/ Is my friend. Of course, it doesn't have buts, ifs and ors listed either, but the point still stands.

On a MB if your going to nit pick at spelling... mheeee

Genius! This is awesome, thanks for the tip!

.... Pretty sure he was talking about words like "honor" vs "honour" or "armor" vs "armour." American english vs. British english.

Although I'm confused by the original post. He says the US english spell-checker was changing his -ors to -ours, so he tried to install the canadian english spell-checker to fix it?! No self-respecting US english spell-checker would be caught dead changing and -or to -our. And I thought Canadian english is closer to British english than American english... *confused* 

Oh whups, yeah thats what I did mean, I can change it. I need to stop posting late. Canadian English is slightly different from British English but otherwise the same.

I WANT MY SPELLCHECK BACK!

It does work apparently. Like Netriak said you can turn it on by control right-clicking or clicking on a part of the post box that doesn't have text in it.

The annoying part is that you also have to control right-click on mispelled words in order to see the spelling suggestions from firefox.

That really should be 'third or fourth party,' at least if you're admitting that you think IE should be the browswer we all use for the forums. I only use IE when I have absolutely no other choice. In Firefox (my 2nd-choice browser, mostly used for Stardock forums), you can see hints (temp stuff before an edit box fully opens) that the 'other party' postbox Stardock uses actively rejects the built-in spellcheck provided by Firefox. That seems like a really silly design choice on the part of those TinyWhatever folks.

Weel Ah'll b dimmed - ah ain't bin abel tu yoos speelchek cince ah wuz furst heer!

Ah yes, thank you so very much chap - having access to my automated system for correcting those minor, but oh so embarrassing momentary lapses helps my posting immensely.

Ta!

Jonnan

Spell checking doesn't mean much when the word is spelled correctly, BUT, it is the wrong word.

As in Loose vs Lose, for instance. (one of my pet peeves)

Yeah, but its a godsend for people like me, who know a foreign language mostly by meaning and hearing and thus don't know the exact spellings of words. It makes my posts readable where there was before only a garbled mess.

Same here, I have written output disorder. What that actually means varies from person to person but for me it means by hand I write very sloooooow. Typing on a keyboard is no problem but it does spill over into my spelling and grammar.

Ouch.

...this is why we need the spellcheck to work!

Actually if you use the Google Toolbar spellcheck, it marks the mistakes with red, which when you disable the spellcheck in order to post, they remain and appear in the post. Very annoying...

Example: Example

Now incorrect: encorret