Typos

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

To which I address a question to the mods. Is there no spell chack feature in vBulletin? It seems like one of the most obvious user features that I find myself amazed that it does not exist. Although, being in IT I can understand chosing a product, especially for this purpose, based on admin capabilities over user features, but spell check is so basic.

[Andrew Breecher]

Hmm, I can touch type, so I'm able to type a post while in conversation with someone else in the room, and not even looking at the computer. I also almost always hit "Preview Post" before hitting "Submit" so I can make sure the post looks all right. If I'm unsure of a spelling, I look it up on answers.com. If one were really concerned with spelling, one could type the post in Microsoft Word or some such program with a built-in spelling checker, and then copy and paste into the X-Marks post format. I suppose none of that makes a difference if ones near-vision still can't see the computer screen though.

Andrew.

[GMan]

Two things I noticed where I make my major typos.

1. Extremely tired
2. Too much drink
3. Not enough drink

Hope your eyesight gets back to where it should be Jerry.

[Iolaus]

Hmm, I can touch type, so I'm able to type a post while in conversation with someone else in the room, and not even looking at the computer. I also almost always hit "Preview Post" before hitting "Submit" so I can make sure the post looks all right. If I'm unsure of a spelling, I look it up on answers.com. If one were really concerned with spelling, one could type the post in Microsoft Word or some such program with a built-in spelling checker, and then copy and paste into the X-Marks post format. I suppose none of that makes a difference if ones near-vision still can't see the computer screen though.

Andrew.

"Preview Post" is your friend. If something doesn't look right to me, I just Google the word and Google will ask me "Did you mean..." It's not fool-proof, but it works for me.

[bear]

As the leading bitcher about poor spelling, I gotta tell ya, I don't care how poor the spelling is, as lomg as the effort seems to be there to type correctly.
It's the lazy/no capitals/no punctuation/abbreviate every other word that gets me riled. They can call it internet spelling, or a youth thing, but it comes down to laziness.

[Iolaus]

As the leading bitcher about poor spelling, I gotta tell ya, I don't care how poor the spelling is, as lomg as the effort seems to be there to type correctly.
It's the lazy/no capitals/no punctuation/abbreviate every other word that gets me riled. They can call it internet spelling, or a youth thing, but it comes down to laziness.

Ummm, that would be long.

[Mike1]

KCW, if I recall, there is a spell-check hack that can be added to vB.

The Webbie has this forum set up to pretty rapidly time out inactive users. For those that are not touch-typists (such as myself), the suggestion to use Word, or something similar, can have two advantages. You can type your post without the fear of trying to submit it after a time-out (can you tell it's happened to me? ) and you can spell-check the text before pasting it into the text editor on here.

[Jerry]

KCW, if I recall, there is a spell-check hack that can be added to vB.

The Webbie has this forum set up to pretty rapidly time out inactive users. For those that are not touch-typists (such as myself), the suggestion to use Word, or something similar, can have two advantages. You can type your post without the fear of trying to submit it after a time-out (can you tell it's happened to me? ) and you can spell-check the text before pasting it into the text editor on here.

How long is the timeout setting? It seems to me that I sometimes take forever putting together a post, trying to proof read it and then posting. So far I haven't had anything time out.

[millar]

As the leading bitcher about poor spelling, I gotta tell ya,

Yes, Bear, I totally agree with you. Lazy fools. Now let us talk about grammar... :grin:

[lrpddrummie]

Spell check for online use. Go to the Google home page and from there you can add the Google toolbar to your internet explorer. The toolbar has a spell check that works on blog posts, online applications, basically anything that you are doing online it will spell check for you.