BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?

Subject: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 11:24 AM

I noticed, since yesterday, spellcheck is showing up in my postings drafts. I wondered if this was a new feature of Mudcat OR, if it had to do with something goggle has implemented. A box popped up the other day asking if I wanted to add British spelling to my google apps. I said yes, and voila, I have spellcheck at Mudcat! (Which tells me, btw, "spellcheck" is misspelled.:-)

So, well done, Max and Jeff, if you added it! If not, I am still happy for it as it saves me some time in corrections.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 11:37 AM

I haven't got that on mine; I could do with it!

The other thing I can't do on Mudcat is italics and things like that. How do other people do it?

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: gnomad
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 11:43 AM

I suspect it must be a Google thing, no such feature yet in my mudcat drafts. Unless..maybe you get it along with the secret inner circle decoder ring pack ;-)

Speaking of spellcheck shortcomings the one at my last place of work didn't know the word internet (despite being connected to it, and a Microsoft product) moreover it wouldn't let it be added to the dictionary.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 12:02 PM

so...you must have Google toolbar or something? I don't care for that.

I have TinySpell running constantly, so it works no matter where I'm typing, and there IS now a spell check available in Firefox browser.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Amos
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 12:27 PM

Eanjay:

To do bold, italics, and strikethorugh and underlining in posts you have to hand-type in the HTML control codes in bracket (< and >) with a b, i, s, or u at he beginning of the text you want to modify. The same thing at the end but with a slash in front of the letter, indicating to end the effect, likewise enclosed in angle brackets. See the HTML guide among the permathreads.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 12:42 PM

Amos, thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: s&r
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 12:51 PM

so this should be bold?

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: s&r
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 12:52 PM

Wow

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 12:57 PM

But can you do it in color?

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:00 PM

I'm pretty sure that the spell checker I have is part of Firefox.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Bee
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:07 PM

Durn. I tried using HTML tags when I first joined up and didn't think they worked for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:08 PM

Spellcheck is correct for a verb, but Spell Check is correct for a noun. IMO. On precedent.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Bee
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:08 PM

Well, Hallelujah!

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:15 PM

Ah...maybe its Mozilla? Can't remember, now, if it was google or Firefox which asked about the British spelling. Good grief...I should pay closer attention! I know I don't have google toolbar. It is rather nice and such a new concept to me!**bg**

I suppose, technically, it is "Spell Checker" for noun and if we really want to be pedantic, "checking for spelling" or some such for a verb.

Thanks, all,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:17 PM

NO I do not want to be pedantic! [blowing friendly raspberry] But sometimes the ability to be pedantic helps explain how spellcheckers get so screwed up sometimes!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: bobad
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:19 PM

It comes with Mozilla Firefox 2.0

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Alba
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:21 PM

Now we will be seeing some fancy postings...LOL

On the topic of spell check, it is something I could be doing with as I have a bit of trouble with Dizz Lex E AH so anything that helps me with the proof reading (sometimes re-reading many times only to find I have still got it all back to front and and even if that part is fixed I find a load of words that I have spelled incorrectly!:)) would be an asset.

Happy Fancy posting Folks!
Best of Wishes as always,

Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Bernard
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:24 PM

Witches use 'spell checkers'... 'spelling checkers are for the rest of us!

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Alba
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:29 PM

* wink ~ Bernard*

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it Google or Mudcat?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 02:17 PM

The Google toolbar (the version I have) does have a button on the toolbar labelled ABC Check, with selections to "autocheck" and choice of several languages.

If I click on the "autocheck" it disables input while it autochecks something, but I've never been able to figure out exactly what it is that it's checking, or a way to make it check what I type or what I have typed. It also never seems to produce any visible result, although that may just be because my speling is so prefickt - or maybe because I just haven't really tryed to ues it enuff.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 02:35 PM

just testing in italics!<-i>

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Alec
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 02:46 PM

Spell Check maintains that "The new York to London road" is incorrect but "Too bee ore knot too bee" is correct.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Alec
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 03:02 PM

What has Amos unleashed?

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 03:05 PM

Use of crutches to check spelling indicates that the years spent in the classroom were wasted, and efforts of teachers were for nought. What a waste of resources!

Harrumpf!

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 03:16 PM

I made a mistake on my last testso I'm putting it right nowred

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 03:37 PM

Q...it's not that those years with Mrs. Worcester and Mr. Grassfield were wasted...it's that my fingers are dyslexic when typing!**BG**

Leave it to you lot to make this SO much fun!

Bernard, we witches can use all the help we can get. Hahahaha!

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it Google or Mudcat?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 03:54 PM

John beat me to it--there is a feature in the Google spell check that I've never used. It's "autofix" and I have never used it. I just now clicked and it didn't like "autofix" --isn't that a kick in the Google pants!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 04:36 PM

Q, shouldn't "nought" be 'naught"?

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 04:51 PM

ahem....**TinySpell**

it really works..instantly...and YOU can edit it to add words.(I type 'thru' a lot, and don't want to be nagged!)

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: ragdall
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 05:50 PM

can you make the text scroll in the other direction?

alternate?


page?

the

down

scroll

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 05:51 PM

According to Webster's Intercollegiate, both are acceptable- nought a var. of naught. Or as Gower spelt it in 1390, noght. The OED has a full page on nought. And some prefer nowt.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 05:55 PM

My grandfather was from Lancashire and he used to say nowt.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 05:56 PM

Thanks ranger1!

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: artbrooks
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 06:20 PM

Rags! Stop that shit! {And how do you do it, anyway?}

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: ragdall
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:10 PM

Alba started it.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:20 PM

Fergit it. Ah don' want no goddam mashine tellin' me how ta spell. Iffen it was good enuff fer Billy-Bob Shakespeare it's plenty good enuff fer me.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 09:13 PM

Billy Bob Shakespeare didn't always spell that gude. Neither did Big John Milton. Come off it already, Lo How Time The Suttle Theef oi Youth.?

Sorry foe th. errors. I'm l.arning the Dvorak keyboard.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 09:36 PM

If yew want something to scroll across, artbrooks, just use the html "marquee" between the < and >, then type in your text, but be sure to close it off with a /marquee between those two marks at the end.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 09:44 PM

I've got the Google one, and find it pretty useful, when I remember to use it. It's mostly useful for picking up typos, like writing teh instead of the. It can save a lot of time - and more important, I always find that I miss seeing typos a lot of the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 01:46 AM

An alternative is the Wordweb free download. A large spell(ing) checker which sits on the tool-bar, so is available in any program(me).
It only does one word at a time, though. You have to highlight the suspect word. Good, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 02:41 AM

I'll use a spellchecker to spot typos and brainfarts, but if I'm uncertain as to the spelling of a word I look it up in a dictionary! Yes, the old-fashioned kind made of paper and ink, not some electronic facsimile thereof. It might be easier to guess at the spelling and then let the spellchecker tell me whether or not I'm right, but would I learn anything by doing that?

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 05:03 AM

Both marque and blink are non-standard tags that work only in some browsers, and hence SHOULD NOT BE USED except as occasional "toys" - here in "joke" threads or in html practice threads.

Originally the marquee (scrolling) worked only in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, so although some other browsers have added the ability to display it, it's use is in effect a "tribute to Microsoft" via your assumption that IE is what all your friends use.

Most browsers that fail to display the scrolling text should show the text contained between the <marquee> and </marquee> tags, but it won't scroll.

A similarly limited tag is the "blink," which originally was displayed for the most part only by "browsers that don't display marquee" so it was possible to display the same text between both marquee and blink tags, on the assumption that most browsers would display the text with one or the other (but not both) of the two effects.

The blink tag has/had a slightly different implementation in Netscape for Macintosh, as in that browser only instead of the background remaining constant and the text blinking on and off, the background and foreground colors alternated.

Since it is impossible to know whether viewers will see either of these effects, their use should be minimized. It should also be considered, when deciding whether a limited use is justified, that they can be

EXTREMELY ANNOYING

(if used to excess)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Spellcheck - is it google or Mudcat?
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 12:47 PM

Hey eanjay, no problem. Like I said, easy enough if someone shows you how.