spell check

[teuton]

Hello,

I notice that many DK members are not native speakers (as me myself), especially in the garage section where I use to hang out.
Does it make sense to provide a spell check before posting or would this be just a waste of resources?

Thanx for your comments.

[ianmac]

Hello,

I notice that many DK members are not native speakers (as me myself), especially in the garage section where I use to hang out.
Does it make sense to provide a spell check before posting or would this be just a waste of resources?

Thanx for your comments.

I think you will find there is a spell checker, not htat i ave usd it...

@ the top right hand side of the text box you will see a blue tick, that is the spell checker...

--- Ian ---

[teuton]

Okay, so thread can be closed. Thanx.

[Devilfish]

I had no idea we had a spell checker on the forum. Are you sure?

[ianmac]

I had no idea we had a spell checker on the forum. Are you sure?

I have only ever hovered over the "blue tick" & seen that it is a "spell checker", never actually used it until you said this.

Just tried it now & it seems you have to download & install the "ispell" file to get the blue spell check button to actually work, but it was quite painless & took less than 1 min...

[Qrius]

I had no idea we had a spell checker on the forum. Are you sure?

Sure !
Click the ABC in the red circle !
After installing a little add-on , it looks like this

[Meat-Head]

wow that's really cool, never noticed that before, so what about, tire, tyre, colour, color, plough, plow, gulf, golf ****

awesome, American spelling aluminum

[opsmonkey]

i dont even have that ABC Tick option..??

[Qrius]

i dont even have that ABC Tick option..??

Should even have it in your PM quick reply screen in the right corner

[snagga]

Should even have it in your PM quick reply screen in the right corner

Spell checker not showing in firefox, but ok in Internet Explorer. So maybe its not supported in firefox.


ieSpell - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

[Meat-Head]

Should even have it in your PM quick reply screen in the right corner

Grr that now opens another can of worms....How the hell did you manage to seperate the ????

[Qrius]

Grr that now opens another can of worms....How the hell did you manage to seperate the ????

Right click the icoon , then propertie's , copy the url you see , and add it as an image

[Meat-Head]

Right click the icoon , then propertie's , copy the url you see , and add it as an image

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/images/styles/christmas_2008/editor/insertimage.gif

ah didn't see the entire code.

thanks

[ianmac]

wow that's really cool, never noticed that before, so what about, tire, tyre, colour, color, plough, plow, gulf, golf ****

awesome, American spelling aluminum

You can change the spelling language in the options from the default US to UK m8...

[Devilfish]

Ah...I use Firefox so that's why I don't see it.

But I also use the 'British English Dictionary' addon which underlines words that are spelt wrong on any website.