Comments on: Spellcheck http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2008/12/22/spell-check/ (It's not defined!) Mon, 21 May 2012 22:48:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Blair http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2008/12/22/spell-check/#comment-3960 Blair Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:28:21 +0000 http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/?p=979#comment-3960 One bit of follow-up on this: Because the spell checker (or, as as a friend more properly describes it, spelling checker) is the one built-in to Firefox, if this issue were sufficiently important to me, I could submit a correction. Of course, Firefox being an open source product, this would inevitably lead to a tedious discussion of whether product names belong in the dictionary, several dozen exclamations that I would have never encountered this problem had I been using such-and-such obscure design package running on a specific but equally obscure Linux distribution. (Never mind that I work in a Microsoft shop and hardly have the authority to dictate software preferences to the entire - breathtakingly huge - enterprise.) The final result would of course be that a different word would end up in the dictionary, but it wouldn't be spelled correctly. Somehow, this just doesn't strike me as being worth the effort. One bit of follow-up on this: Because the spell checker (or, as as a friend more properly describes it, spelling checker) is the one built-in to Firefox, if this issue were sufficiently important to me, I could submit a correction.

Of course, Firefox being an open source product, this would inevitably lead to a tedious discussion of whether product names belong in the dictionary, several dozen exclamations that I would have never encountered this problem had I been using such-and-such obscure design package running on a specific but equally obscure Linux distribution. (Never mind that I work in a Microsoft shop and hardly have the authority to dictate software preferences to the entire - breathtakingly huge - enterprise.)

The final result would of course be that a different word would end up in the dictionary, but it wouldn’t be spelled correctly.

Somehow, this just doesn’t strike me as being worth the effort.

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