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Chrome Spellcheck is crap!

Posted 11-10-2011 at 12:33 PM by DarkHoodness
Updated 11-11-2011 at 08:19 AM by DarkHoodness
This irritates me so much, perhaps a lot more than it should.

http://www.oddworldforums.net/blog_a...1&d=1321031969

Dyslexia sucks, so I encounter this problem at least 5 times or more daily. Why is Chrome's spellchecker so damned useless? Anyone know of a fix?

Searching for info about the spellchecker just results in people bitching about how crap and useless it is, rather than something that will make it better.

EDIT: Oh and apparently you're not allowed to use the IMG tag for images uploaded to the forums within blogs, yet you can use it for images that are external to the forums that have proper URLs. Weird.

EDIT 2: Why was the "Moderate comments" box checked? That's also weird! The hell is up with stuff today?
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Daxter King's Avatar
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.
Posted 11-10-2011 at 02:20 PM by Daxter King

Mac Sirloin's Avatar
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.
Posted 11-10-2011 at 03:51 PM by Mac Sirloin

Splat's Avatar
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?)
Posted 11-10-2011 at 05:29 PM by Splat

Chubfish's Avatar
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.
Posted 11-10-2011 at 05:39 PM by Chubfish

moxco's Avatar
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.
Posted 11-10-2011 at 05:40 PM by moxco
Updated 11-11-2011 at 03:23 AM by moxco

DarkHoodness's Avatar
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:

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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 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.

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

:
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?)
- Hah, thanks, I'll remember that.

:
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.
- Thanks, that'd help.

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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.
- 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.
Posted 11-10-2011 at 06:15 PM by DarkHoodness
Updated 11-10-2011 at 06:23 PM by DarkHoodness

T-nex's Avatar
Moderated comment!?!??
Posted 11-11-2011 at 01:39 AM by T-nex

Nate's Avatar
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Also the admins have used the CSS property [I-user-select[/i]. 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.
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.

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Moderated comment!?!??
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.
Posted 11-11-2011 at 02:53 AM by Nate

moxco's Avatar
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.
Posted 11-11-2011 at 03:30 AM by moxco

DarkHoodness's Avatar
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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.
I found an option in blog controls to view moderated comments, but couldn't find the option to approve any of them.
Posted 11-11-2011 at 10:33 PM by DarkHoodness

Nate's Avatar
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.
Posted 11-11-2011 at 10:38 PM by Nate

DarkHoodness's Avatar
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.
Posted 11-11-2011 at 11:13 PM by DarkHoodness

Manco's Avatar
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Microsoft word doesn't think percentage is a word.
:
Firefox has this problem too
Wait a minute, Word 2010 recognises “percentage” and Firefox 8 suggests “necessarily” when one types “nessescarily”.

Somebody is lying or misinformed.
Posted 11-12-2011 at 02:49 PM by Manco

Splat's Avatar
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.
Posted 11-12-2011 at 04:43 PM by Splat
Updated 11-12-2011 at 04:45 PM by Splat

Manco's Avatar
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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.
Posted 11-13-2011 at 06:23 AM by Manco

 

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