Chrome Spellcheck is crap!

Have you looked for an extension that has a spell checker? I think you should feel lucky, as my spelling has only gotten worse the more I rely on spell check.

I feel your pain. My iPod touch has the most mindbendingly retarded autocorrect in the universe. My best suggestion (as another Chrome user) is to just tweak the word a bit if you don't get the proper spelling first time round. Works for me.

Taught to me by the best teacher I ever had (high-school English):

Never
Eat
Cakes
Eat
Salmon
Sandwiches
And
Remain
Young

Obviously, the problem isn't the word but the spellchecker. Still, even us non-dyslexics have to think up ways of cheating on every word longer than seven letters.

(Why is dyslexic so hard to spell?)

Firefox has this problem too but I will ask around about it for you if that's okay since 3/4 of the people I live with use Chrome.

Microsoft word doesn't think percentage is a word.

Also the admins have used the CSS property -user-select. It basically prevents us from accessing certain content (in this case the image url). Presumably to prevent the image from being reposted and the forums bandwidth being hijacked.

HINT: Make sure the "Moderated Comments" box is unchecked. Why was it checked in the first place? I can't work out how to approve them (is this broken?) so I'll repost them in the old fashioned way. Sorry people:

- I have, to no avail, but then I haven't looked hard so perhaps that's my fault really. I try not to lean heavily on the spellchecker and learn when I mis-spell, but I often keep forgetting how to spell stuff.

- I used to do that but it's sometimes less effort to copy-paste the word into the search bar up top.

- Hah, thanks, I'll remember that.

- Thanks, that'd help.

- The thing about that is that you can use uploaded images in IMG tags in normal forum topics, but not in blog posts it seems.

Moderated comment!?!??

We have done no such thing. It's just that vBulletin blogs are broken and Alcar hasn't updated the forum software in years. There is actually an option to enable/disable this for the posts, but it doesn't exist for blogs.

Yeah, it means that no-one but the blog creator and admins can see the comments before they've been approved by the same people. It's another thing I'd like to be able to disable but can't.



DarkHoodness: You need to actually approve the comments even after turning off moderated comments. That might have been why T-nex was confused; she wouldn't have been able to see them.

Oh I was just speculating as it didn't appear to be in any sort of image format. Then apart from controlling the resizing, what is with the -webkit-user-select thing.

I found an option in blog controls to view moderated comments, but couldn't find the option to approve any of them.

If it's the same for you as it is for me, click the checkbox on each comment, then go to the dropdown box at the bottom to approve them.

Hm, I didn't see any checkboxes. I even tried changing skins, but to no avail.

Still, from now on I'll be checking that "Moderated Comments" isn't checked by accident, so I don't suppose it matters.

Wait a minute, Word 2010 recognises “percentage” and Firefox 8 suggests “necessarily” when one types “nessescarily”.

Somebody is lying or misinformed.

Per cent is formally two words, so I guess it might accept per centage, though not tried.

EDIT: Ok, have tried. It accepted percentage and not per centage. Bah, what version of Word do you use?

I remember once I had one of those mental blocks and couldn't think how to spell 'goes'. I tried 'gos' and couldn't get the right suggestion. It's at the top of the list when I try it now, though.

I am using Word Starter 2010.

Recognises: per cent, percentage
Does not recognise: percent, per centage

According to Wiktionary, this is correct.