a spell & grammar checker

[kia cat]

AB Ed,
The site's grown up a lot since I logged on a few years back. Any chance of a spell & grammar checker? Maybe a qu heading titeld "what's that bit of music from ... [TV/Film etc]"? Getting better every day on here. Thanks

[B00]

Eh?

[legoliarse]

yeh oi finks at is a mervolous idaes kit kat

[Mr Veritas]

Hi there,
I think it's a great idea,and one that has been asked for before (with little response from AB).
Sadly,to get an answer to your question we have to have an AB Ed,,and as they haven't blogged since March 25th I think we are not going to have much luck.
Sorry.

[kia cat]

Sorry guys. The computer pasted 1 qu with another I was about to paste!

[ChuckFickens]

Putting a spell checker on a website is impractical, it would either have to be done as a JAVA app which would take up server resources and cause extra problems with people not able to post if they didn't have java installed, Or it would have to wait until you have clicked submit and then spell check, which would add another step to posting and would annoy a lot of people.

You would be better off using a browser that spell checks everything as you type such as firefox.

Also, a grammar checker would probably have a fit and crash within a few minutes when faced with some of the posts on this site.