Sam wrote: > Gervase Markham wrote: > > > 50 years ago people wrote with pen, pencil, and paper. This takes longer > and leaves more time for thought and makes it far more likely that a > spelling error would be noticed. Also, since it was orders of magnitude > more difficult to correct an error, more care was taken in what was > written. Today, I just hit the backspace a couple of times and retype it.
Funny, the correctly spelled word travels from my brain to my fingers at the same speed whether writing with a pen/pencil or typing on a keyboard. > Additionally the whole purpose of machines is to offload work. Are you > saying that we shouldn't use machines for this purpose? Or are you just > saying that anyone who has trouble spelling should not be allowed to use > machines? "Machines" are responsible for poor arithmetic skills as well, eg., calculators !!! :-( > So are you saying that noone should ever use the binaries distributed by > Mozilla.org and people should only get rebranded versions through > sources like Netscape? Yes for the most part as Mozilla is not intended as an end-user application. Use NS 6.2, it has a spellchecker and is basically Mozilla 0.9.4+ with added proprietary features. > > I am not saying that your FAQ is useless, I am saying that the attitude > in it is destructive. Only for those that are guilty. For all the rest of us it is rather amusing and on target. >>> 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? Oh bullcrap !! > The resources I offer are myself, as a tester, bug reporter, and user. > Or do only people who are able to develop in c/java/javascript/etc > count? And if I don't have "resources" that qualify for your defination, > what kind of welcome can I expect? > The same welcome I get. I have no idea how to program in anything other than BASIC and HTML !! :-/ -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
