Weird preview spell-check mistake... [more inside]
posted by ob on Dec 9, 2009 - 41 comments

Spell check be giving me a CFM error in Jobs.
posted by dobbs on Mar 1, 2007 - 6 comments

Hey, can we have the spelling "judgement" added to the spell checker? Cripes, of all the words we'd ever need on MeFi.

Okay, I know that this qualifies as a "small, specific, and/or immediate problem" but it seemed like a cosmically (comically?) significant (or at least very mildly interesting) omission to me.
posted by XMLicious on Nov 28, 2006 - 156 comments

I've seen members ask about metafilter members with accounts on other sites like myspace, last.fm, and the like. I was just wondering if there are any members here with Deviant Art accounts, who'd share a link? I've been wandering about looking in the jewelery section and thought it would be nice to peek at and fav some of you guys from here.

Also? The spell checker isn't working in metatalk.
posted by FunkyHelix on Oct 1, 2006 - 8 comments

Mr. Haughey, if you've disabled the Java spell-check feature, shouldn't you remove the “Spell Check” form button form Ask MeFi?

Just FYI. Unless spell-check still works for that area of the website. Then disregard this post. Thanks!
posted by Colloquial Collision on Sep 28, 2006 - 35 comments

Did the spell check button on MeFi comments go away? Has this been discussed already and if so will I be made fun of in the comments for this post?
posted by xmutex on Sep 22, 2006 - 7 comments

AskMe spell check error
posted by louigi on Sep 22, 2006 - 3 comments

Is anyone's spell check on AskMefi just not showing up? There is just no icon for the spell checking tool (showing up for me). I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.7 on a Windows XP. Thanks.
posted by ifranzen on Sep 20, 2006 - 2 comments

The spellcheck button has disappeared for me, in both the blue and the green. And the spellcheck on MeTa posts isn't working also.
posted by biffa on Sep 18, 2006 - 9 comments

Spell check not working. Clicked for it, it generated this error:

Error processing CFX custom tag "CFX_JSpellCheck".
posted by Goofyy on Sep 14, 2006 - 9 comments

I'm testing out a new ajaxy spellchecker here on MetaTalk for the next couple days. Let me know if you find it better/more useful/buggy. If all goes well, it could be carried over to every textarea on the server.
posted by mathowie on Jan 1, 2006 - 36 comments

Just becausw I'm bored and there is a new design, another tagline thread?
posted by wheelieman on Nov 26, 2005 - 32 comments

Oops: The Spellchecker in AskMe apparently doesn't check the "more inside" section (and thus it is embarrassingly revealed that I know how to spell neither "precocity" nor "curiosities"). [MI]
posted by nobody on Nov 20, 2005 - 18 comments

When posting a question on AskMe, the spellcheck checks the initial question textarea, but not the "extended description" ("more inside") text.
posted by winston on Sep 30, 2005 - 2 comments

PonyRequestFilter: does anybody else (other than amberglow) perceive a rise in spelling errors since the deployment of live preview? Is a live spell check viable?
posted by kimota on Aug 12, 2005 - 7 comments

Spell check suddenly not working, both the blue and the green. Get this msg:
Error processing CFX custom tag "CFX_JSpellCheck".
The CFX custom tag "CFX_JSpellCheck" was not found in the custom tag database. Please be sure to add custom tags to the database before using them. If you have added your tag to the database then you should check the spelling of the tag within your template to insure that it matches the database entry.
posted by Goofyy on Aug 8, 2005 - 1 comment

Malicious Insects: Starting today, as soon as I click Spell Check when posting a comment with Firefox (version 1.03 in Fedora Core 3) my browser immediately crashes. This didn't occur yesterday or previously in the same environment. Also, doesn't happen on my Windows XP machine with Firefox 1.03.

Now that I think about it since I'm on Fedora Core 3 instead of Windows or a Mac, I'll probably just have to live with it.
posted by melt away on May 14, 2005 - 13 comments

How about adding some frequently used non-words to the spellcheck, for example, "blog".
posted by Capn on Feb 25, 2005 - 21 comments

The spell check is throwing me a cold fusion error. [mi]
posted by FunkyHelix on Feb 8, 2005 - 3 comments

Would it be possible to have the spell checker updated to accept some common words used here? Mefi and Metafilter (and all other variants thereof) get constantly tagged as misspellings, as do commonly used words like "snarky".

No big deal if it can't be done, but if it could it would be quite appreciated.
posted by Bugbread on Nov 26, 2004 - 10 comments

The spell checker's got some bugs.
posted by betaray on Oct 5, 2003 - 8 comments

Spell check deletes comment on exit [Opera 6.05]
posted by monkey closet on Sep 19, 2003 - 23 comments

There has been discussion about this before, but I'm wondering if at this point I am the only one having this problem: Mozilla 1.1 in XP crashes about every other time I try to use the spell checker in MeFi (MeTa seems to behave better).
posted by epimorph on Oct 20, 2002 - 5 comments

Spell check problem - if the text being checked has character entity sequences > or < when spell check completes they will be replaced in the textarea with greater-than or less-than signs. My browser is: Mozilla 1.1 -- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826.
posted by chipr on Sep 20, 2002 - 9 comments

Isn't it internally ironic that when you run your post through a spell check, it gets caught on the term "MeFi"?
posted by BentPenguin on Sep 5, 2002 - 13 comments

The front page represents us to the world. If we're going to take the trouble to post to it, can we doublecheck our spelling?
posted by rushmc on Aug 30, 2002 - 27 comments

Mozilla 1.1b crashing after spellcheck is completed. Anyone else using Moz having this problem?
posted by skallas on Jul 29, 2002 - 6 comments

This is really more of a nit, but a nit is a little tiny bug, I guess .... Is there any way to customize the spell-check a little? I'm getting really tired of seeing Mafia every time I spellcheck MeFi.
posted by anastasiav on Jul 16, 2002 - 22 comments

Yesterday and today, Spell Check has been hanging my browser (IE 6.0 on Windows 2000). Not every time, but regularly.
posted by timeistight on Jun 28, 2002 - 1 comment

Spell check doesn't work properly on opera 6.0 for linux. The checking works fine, but if you replace a word after the run is complete the entire comment text gets replaced by the last corrected word (owch).
posted by fvw on Jun 10, 2002 - 2 comments

Must I continually check my spelling through Word? Has there been any headway on a spellchecker replacement?
posted by hotdoughnutsnow on Jan 7, 2002 - 7 comments

Misspelt words: please, either use Spell Check before posting or slink away silently if you make a boo-boo. Don't post a comment with the corrected spelling and your apology for it. (Do write the word three times to learn how to spell it!)
posted by Carol Anne on Nov 27, 2001 - 65 comments

The spellcheck function still appears to be dead. I saw that Thirteen already mentioned it but thought I might go ahead and mention it again.

It was a pretty cool feature. Now it just bugs me. :)
posted by amanda on Feb 25, 2001 - 5 comments

The preview/spellchecking functionality on metafilter is finally available now on metatalk.
posted by mathowie on Nov 12, 2000 - 4 comments

There's now spellchecking and an improved comment/preview system that doesn't require reloading pages to edit. If you find any bugs let me know. I think the spellchecker.net popup works in most major browsers.
posted by mathowie on Oct 22, 2000 - 14 comments