acies Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 I find that spell check in Firefox 2 is very very useful, but not very good.. I am not good at spelling, so if I want to spell something I should just be able to type something pretty close to it and it will suggest to me what I wanted to spell. But it sometimes doesn't seems to give me the word I am trying to spell and I always resort to google which gives what I want instantly, am I using it/doing something wrong, or has anyone else noticed this?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 It happens, hopefully it'll be improved in version 3! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 I find the spell check to be very primitive. It doesnt have MANY common words, such as "inquiry" and "inquired". Doesnt have the various tenses, doesnt have alternative spellings (ise vs. ize) And worst of all, it doesnt recognise missing apostrophes (such as in "doesnt"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NienorGT Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 Far from being perfect, it at least help me a lot in English since it's not my primary language. I just hope it get improved... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acies Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 Here's an example: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhearted Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 I find the spell check to be very primitive. It doesnt have MANY common words, such as "inquiry" and "inquired". Doesnt have the various tenses, doesnt have alternative spellings (ise vs. ize) And worst of all, it doesnt recognise missing apostrophes (such as in "doesnt"). Um, yes it does notice missing apostrophes. In your quoted post alone it gives me the option to fix all of your "doesnt"s with its spell check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Um, yes it does notice missing apostrophes. In your quoted post alone it gives me the option to fix all of your "doesnt"s with its spell check. Then it's probably just the Canadian dictionary....I'm going to compile my own dict some day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceDogg Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 By all means let me know when you do. I'd be interested! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 We have a little problem... Take a look at the sample here, taken from the existing Canadian dictionary... What do the letters behind / stand for? And what's with the random 1 letter lines? Egor/M date/DRSMZGV Mildred/M debit/D herbalism forging/M cribbage/MS tripe/SM herbalist/SM Tripp/M carbohydrate/MS afterwards mouton/MS swordplayer/M Souths try/JZGDRS sunup/SM browbeat/SGN obtrusiveness/MSU pretrial Mouthe/M noisemaker/M organza/SM chorale/SM A B/GT C D E F Debor/M drive/GZSRBJ G/B H I J/X K/G Kalamazoo/M L M/GB N O P Q R/G S easternmost T/G U Afghani/SM presumption/SM V nimbus/DM W/T X Y Z/X a b/KGDT Emmey/M baggagemen c/EAS antimalarial/S d/AMV enveloper/M aggravate/XSDNG Balearic/M e/FDSM f/BVXT Karamazov/M g/VXB h/VEMS i Braille/DSGM j/FTV transceiver/MS k/FGISE promising/YU l/XTJGV Emmet/M m/XG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.M.K Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 I've found issues with it to, but I can with live with them at this stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salgoth Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 We have a little problem...Take a look at the sample here, taken from the existing Canadian dictionary... What do the letters behind / stand for? And what's with the random 1 letter lines? Maybe this site will help. http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/11/firefox...nary-hacks.html It taught me a few things at least. And about those letters... From some Wikipedia stuff about MySpell: "The spell checking is done using the .aff file for the locale together with the .dic file. The .dic file is a list of words along with a group of letters which refer to the affixes found in the .aff file. This saves space because instead of having include all forms of a word, like jump (jumping, jumps, jumped), the .dic file will include the word once and the references to the affixes in the .aff file allow the construction of all the other forms." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echilon Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Instead of misspelling a word, then having to right click look for the right suggestion and click it, wouldn't it be quicker to just learn to spell and type it correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Instead of misspelling a word, then having to right click look for the right suggestion and click it, wouldn't it be quicker to just learn to spell and type it correctly? The problem is that sometimes when you dont know the spelling, it's quicker to make it correct it rather than to look up the dictionary for it. Also, a lot of valid words arent in the firefox dictionary and that's just annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acies Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 Instead of misspelling a word, then having to right click look for the right suggestion and click it, wouldn't it be quicker to just learn to spell and type it correctly? Brilliant... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cryton Subscriber² Posted February 2, 2007 Subscriber² Share Posted February 2, 2007 With any luck, Firefox 3 will be using HunSpell instead of MySpell, which should improve things quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuudJacobs.NET Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 With any luck, Firefox 3 will be using HunSpell instead of MySpell, which should improve things quite a bit. Haha lol you could also try using YourBrain and learn the language out of a book, saves a lot of time eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acies Posted February 3, 2007 Author Share Posted February 3, 2007 Haha lol you could also try using YourBrain and learn the language out of a book, saves a lot of time eventually. "YourBrain" wouldn't have made that mistake had you been using spell check. :rolleyes: But never mind, not everyone is a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Haha lol you could also try using YourBrain and learn the language out of a book, saves a lot of time eventually. You try doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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