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Two quick notes on spelling.

Did you know there's a great spell check tool for IE at http://www.iespell.com/ ? This is very useful when your spelling and typing is a little like mine. Coming from the United Kingdom I often argue with spell checkers about whether words such as optimise have an 's' or a 'z' in them. I guess I ought to set my machine up for UK rather than US spelling but I enjoy the fight!
If you know of other useful addons to Internet Explorer out there let me know.
A recent news article at http://news.com.com/IE+is+evolving%2C+but+is+it+enough%3F/2100-1032-5304259.html spells my name wrong as Massey instead of Massy. It's a minor point but still a little irritating. After all it'd be a shame if someone else was to be the recipient of all the abuse :-)

Thanks
-Dave

Published Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:06 PM by DMassy

Filed under: Internet Explorer

Comments

# re: Spelling @ Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:34 PM

Dave, rather than setting it to UK spelling, you could always try your hand at Aussie spelling :)

It's fairly much the same as UK. (Well, it was based on it... Probably not too much of a difference anyway!)... So, try something different, try Aussie spelling!

Probably the only differences would be when you run the grammer checker in MS Word...

William Luu

# re: Spelling @ Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:28 AM

ieSpellChecker : yeah, right on time with more BHOs just when XP SP2 is so wary about those. Were you ironic in the first place?

Stephane Rodriguez

# re: Spelling @ Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:21 AM

Well, there's always SpellBound:
http://www.exchangecode.com/spellbound/
Available in 43 languages.

travis

# re: Spelling @ Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:10 PM

I disagree with Word about grammar and spelling all the time. It tends to not understand the structure of complex sentences, in which case it sometimes confuses plurality, and it simply is not familiar with a lot of the words I use--especially when writing academic papers. Saaaaay... that sounds rather like many of the engineers here in Silicon Valley.

Some of this is to be expected considering that there is disagreement about what constitutes proper grammar even within a single country and there is even more disagreement between different countries (whether a company should be referred to as a singular entity or plurally as a group, for example). What gets me more than Word flagging things things in disagreement is when it misses things or changes things automatically. Oh yes, and then there is Microsoft's text selection in Word (and many other applications), always selecting things I did not select and sometimes shortening things I did. Ugh.

If you really want to see Word get confused, try typing up some Latin.

Brian Sexton

# re: Spelling @ Monday, August 23, 2004 7:33 AM

I seriously think that you should put up a site like the Windows Media Player skins, visualisations and plugins community site, where developers and companies can upload there IE components and wherethe all users would be able to download staff and would be able to rate it too. If uploading is not desirable, at least make a site on which we can find listings of the best IE components on the Internet, like toolbars and other BHOs and where we can rate them.

Nektar

# re: site like the Windows Media Player skins, visualisations and plugins community site @ Friday, August 27, 2004 9:55 AM

There is this site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx

...but it doesn't come close the firefox community sites.