Comments on: Good News For The Spelling Challenged

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:42:49 +0000

Bobby, it works for all forms, including Haloscan, which is why I wanted it. The grammar may suck, but the spelling is okay.

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:31:16 +0000

I thought Spellbound was that Hitchcock flick with Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman…

Now if only tehre was sple chck in HaloScan.

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:54:48 +0000

Hmm, for some reason it is inserting some extra code in my links. I’ve corrected the problem.

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:47:22 +0000

I’ll have to check to see what WordPress is up to.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:44:35 +0000

OK, I remember about xhref now, but I still don’t understand why WordPress is generating those for links within a post, but plain old href for the links surrounding a post, even in an XHTML page. The xhref links do not work in Firefox 1.5 or in IE 6.x.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:30:47 +0000

What’s an “xhref” property? Firefox 1.5.0.1 doesn’t recognize the links to Rook or Spellbound. Maybe I missed an update.

Spell checkers (the name sounds like something that should be available in the Harry Potter universe) are useful things, but they can give one a false sense of confidence. One frequent problem is the “its/it’s” dilemma. And a friend recently wrote me requesting “you’re mailing address.” Such things pass the spell-check test.

Of course, at nine years old, I was the last Houstonian left in the county spelling bee. I nevr neeed a spel checkerr.