The page does not read like a joke. "We can all spell. Try learning - it's a useful life skill. Really." Doesn't sound like a joke to me. It's really not a joke when it is attached to bugs in bugzilla. It gives the message "go ahead and report your problems, we don't care!"
The fact that many people are asking about it and requesting it indicates that is important functionality. Ignoring large numbers of requests from the user community is NOT what makes an open source project work. This one "FAQ" will do far more to harm the Mozilla community and Mozilla development then all of the requests and questions about the Spell Checker combined. Who wants to be part of a community that doesn't care? J Mosser wrote: > OH GOOD GOD! CAN'T ANYONE TAKE A JOKE ANYMORE?! > > In defense of Gerv, people are really annoying when they just blindly > post and don't read and/or search previous posts on their topic. This > is wasteful of everyone's time. I know that if you look in > n.p.m.mail-news (and other n.p.m.* groups) you can find many PREVIOUS > refs. to the Spell Checker debate. > > 'nuf said > J.M. > > > Chris Lee wrote: > >> Whay to go Sam! >> >> Sam wrote: >> >>> Gervase Markham wrote: >>> >>>> For your edification and amusement, I present: >>>> http://www.mozilla.org.uk/docs/spell-checker-faq.html . >>>> >>>> Please feel free to point anyone who comes in here asking The >>>> Question to this document, and then ignore them. >>>> >>>> Gerv >>>> >>> >>> >>> Wow this is just the sort of attitude towards the user community that >>> will help mozilla go far. And thank god some wonderful helpful >>> individual is now attaching this FAQ to all the spell check bug >>> reports so that anyone who cares enough to check bug reports before >>> submiting new ones can discover the wonderful truth about how much >>> the mozilla developer community cares about user opinions or >>> contributions. >>> >>> Please forgive any spelling mistakes or typos. My mail/news client >>> doesn't have a spell checker. Unfortunately I am not as perfect at >>> spelling and typing as all the mozilla developers. >>> >> >
