Camino now has spell checking...i think

[Lau]

LOL, I usually make myself try again several times before resorting to using the suggestion.

But other people in this thread said they do get suggestions with the latest Camino nightly...why don't you, I wonder?

Oh, hang on, I just tried a few times, and it does, but the clicking's really weird. Maybe I'll train myself not to use it for the good of my health.

 

[Makosuke]

Well, would you look at that. First they finally fix the slow-text-field bug, and now spellchecking.

After the 1.0 build, I hadn't really been following the Camino nightlies, but at long, long, long, long last here's the only feature that I've been waiting for to make Camino complete. A little sad that it doesn't take advantage of OSX's spelling engine, but something is better than nothing, as I'll take their word for it when they say that using the Cocoa text view just wasn't practical. It also doesn't look like it can learn words as a result of using its own engine.

Thanks so much for the heads up.

(Ironic side note: It doesn't know "Camino." Or "nightlies" for that matter.)

 

[prostuff1]

Oh, hang on, I just tried a few times, and it does, but the clicking's really weird. Maybe I'll train myself not to use it for the good of my health.

I think you have stumbled on the one problem that i have been noticing on that last week or so of nightly builds. There is this wired problem were clicks are not quite recorded/caught correctly. Sometimes I have to move the mouse around a little and re-click on the thing. Kinda annoying but i can deal with it.

 

[solaris]

A little sad that it doesn't take advantage of OSX's spelling engine, but something is better than nothing, as I'll take their word for it when they say that using the Cocoa text view just wasn't practical. It also doesn't look like it can learn words as a result of using its own engine.

From what I know it uses the native OS X spelling engine. But since Gecko is not Cocoa, they have to write their own frontend for it.
When bug 343299 is fixed you should be able to add not words to the spell check database, and take advantage of these in TextEdit, Mail, etc.

Oh, hang on, I just tried a few times, and it does, but the clicking's really weird. Maybe I'll train myself not to use it for the good of my health.

I think you have stumbled on the one problem that i have been noticing on that last week or so of nightly builds. There is this wired problem were clicks are not quite recorded/caught correctly. Sometimes I have to move the mouse around a little and re-click on the thing. Kinda annoying but i can deal with it.

No, he have stumbled on the following bug:
343296 - Spell-checker requires text cursor to be in word to get context menu

The spell check function just landed a week ago, so expect a lot of improvements before it even reach Beta stage!