Spellcheck Bug in Opera

September 19, 2003 1:09 AM

Spell check deletes comment on exit [Opera 6.05]
posted by monkey closet to Bugs at 1:09 AM (23 comments total)

I know, it's not the latest Opera, but it's the latest one that doesn't crash on me every 5 minutes...
posted by monkey closet at 1:10 AM on September 19, 2003

but it's also the one that deletes your comments.
posted by quonsar at 4:07 AM on September 19, 2003

Fair point.
posted by monkey closet at 5:12 AM on September 19, 2003

Spell Check is a great big bully.
posted by Shane at 6:39 AM on September 19, 2003

Opera? That $35 crippled browser is still around?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:06 AM on September 19, 2003

you say bug, we say feature. ;-)
posted by madamjujujive at 8:44 AM on September 19, 2003

Another opera 6.x user here. Yeah, it's been doing that for a looong time. Not that I'd spell check anyway, my spelling mistakes are artworks.

Yes, opera is still around, and gaining ground. It's available both as adware and for $35, though I got it for $15 or something like that on a student discount. And it's not crippled, it's light. Kitchen sinks are not necessary for web browsing.
posted by fvw at 9:32 AM on September 19, 2003

You should never misspell.
posted by xmutex at 9:54 AM on September 19, 2003

I guess the javascript spell checker is a kitchen sink.
posted by timeistight at 9:56 AM on September 19, 2003

You should never misspell.

Yeah, I hate it when people make mistakes.
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:08 AM on September 19, 2003

Uh...Opera 7.2 works fine for me. No crippling, no crashing, no comment deleting.
posted by jaronson at 10:54 AM on September 19, 2003

If it's not Mozilla, it's crap!
posted by bshort at 11:00 AM on September 19, 2003

your favorite browser sucks
posted by signal at 11:08 AM on September 19, 2003

Spill chick is fur wieners.
posted by brownpau at 11:23 AM on September 19, 2003

I guess the javascript spell checker is a kitchen sink.

I never said that. Opera has perfectly good javascript support, but every javascript implementation has it's weirdnesses, and those in the browsers with larger userbases have been worked around.


(not that it's not perfectly possible that this is being caused by a bug in opera, but the kitchen sink remark was a response to opera being called crippled, not to javascript spell check not working)

(also: I'm not getting into a browser holy war, especially not on MeTa. *gives timeistight a big hug*)
posted by fvw at 12:55 PM on September 19, 2003

Sorry for insulting your browser fvw. *smooch*
posted by timeistight at 1:44 PM on September 19, 2003

This happened a few time to me recently, use MIE. It was always my longer comments too. Took it as a sign for me to not post a "long winded" comment.
posted by thomcatspike at 2:46 PM on September 19, 2003

Opera has perfectly good javascript support,

Your pants, they are on fiyar!
posted by holloway at 3:37 PM on September 19, 2003

your favorite browser sucks

If you'll excuse me, I'm off to the local t-shirt printing outlet...
posted by backOfYourMind at 2:16 AM on September 20, 2003

this ass makes my pants look fat.
posted by quonsar at 1:18 PM on September 20, 2003

Spill chick is fur wieners.
Don't you mean ist für Wiener ?
posted by oaf at 8:21 AM on September 21, 2003

Stop the presses! Stop the presses!

quonsar is now wearing pants! Repeat, quonsar is now wearing pants!

and thank you, w3c, for making <strong bad="totally awesome"> a valid html tag.
posted by arto at 9:40 AM on September 21, 2003

Using Opera 7.10 here, works like a charm.

Yes, my favorite browser sucks, but it sucks less than yours does. ;)
posted by boredomjockey at 1:38 PM on September 21, 2003