Just the Way It Is.... Spell check ?

[woodsmaster]

I'm sure that I'm over looking the obvious, but where is the spell check at ?

 

[BrotherBart]

There wasn't one in the old forum and there isn't one in the new one. Spell check is best handled by your browser.

 

[woodsmaster]

I had one with the old forum but not this one. Not sure why.

 

[mywaynow]

There was definitely one in the old forum. Not under quick reply, but under post reply and edit, if my memory serves me. Sure seems to be a more important function when compared to bullets, word wrap, italics and underscoring. Smileys, pics and spell check were the most used operations for me. But I am not like many here

 

[woodsmaster]

I doon't nud spilling cheek.

 

[maplewood]

There wasn't one in the old forum and there isn't one in the new one. Spell check is best handled by your browser.

Seriously? You're joking, right?
I'm not a great speller, and I definetely used the checker for every post in the old forum.
You had to Check Document, and then Save Changes if you made any.

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

 

[Eatonpcat]

Just get enough letters to make the words look correct...We'll figure out what you're saying!

 

[LLigetfa]

Speel cheker...woo needs it?

Tihs is so ture
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh? ...

 

[begreen]

Werks gud fer me. I lik the smell chekker. Tho someun here needs a bath!

 

[webbie]

To close out the thread - yes, correct - the old system did have a built-in checked if you wanted to use it. I never did because the browsers I use have it built in, so no need.

It appears that most all modern browsers have spell check built in - IE is the exception, and it is supposed to have one in the new version (already available in beta).
Until then - if one is a never-leave-it IE user, they can get any of a couple free spelling add-ons.

And that, as the Prefix says, is the Way it Is.

 

[begreen]

Seems to be an intermittent problem with TinyMCE. I didn't find a resolution.
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/spell-checker-not-working-properly.14316/

 

[BrotherBart]

To close out the thread - yes, correct - the old system did have a built-in checked if you wanted to use it. I never did because the browsers I use have it built in, so no need.

Interesting. All those years and I never saw it. Hmmm...