An imposter wrote:

> Couldn't someone post a reasonable explaination of why there isn't a 
> spel checker on mozilla's web site insead of these dumb faqs?


This has been answered many times before, but since it keeps coming up:

  Because no one has contributed one.

The one in Netscape 6 is licensed from a 3rd party who does not wish to make
their code public--Netscape cannot contribute that code. Netscape engineers
are swamped with more than enough other work to ever justify spending time
creating a duplicate of something we've already got, so I wouldn't ever
expect open spelling checker code from Netscape.

There's a nice pluggable interface just sitting there waiting for someone

looking to contribute a chunk of code that will be much appeciated.


-Dan Veditz


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