Jay Garcia wrote:
> Pascal Chevrel wrote: > > > Gervase Markham wrote: > > > > > >>>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 not a joke. That bit is deadly serious. Fifty years ago people > >>could spell, because they couldn't offload the work on machines. > >>Learning to spell means all your handwritten (yes, some people still do > >>that) communications will also be understandable. > >> > >>Correct spelling has a purpose - a language agrees on standard spellings > >>in its alphabet of the words for particular things or concepts in order > >>to promote clear communication between individuals. Better spelling > >>leads to better communication. > >> > > > > Gerv, > > > > I find your argumentation very narrow-minded. You forget that most of the > > people in the world speak and write more than one language. I, for one, > > definitely need a multilingual spell checker in mozilla, just like in NS4, > > because I write e-mails in three different languages everyday. Just like Sam, > > I find the "We can all spell. Try learning - it's a useful life skill. > > Really." insulting. What do you expect from non-English speaking users? To > > have an encyclopedic knowledge of your language ? Have you ever thought that > > most of the people need spell checkers because they write in a language which > > is not their mother toungue ? > > > > Pascal > > > > > > Then why don't you use Netscape 6.2 for your email? It has a > spell-checker. 6.2 is Mozilla 0.9.4+. Use Mozilla strictly for testing > purposes, etc. Remember, Mozilla is not an end-user application. What > works today may not work tomorrow or from day to day as the nightlies > unfold, who knows. > > -- > Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion > Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI > UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org I use Mozilla because : - NS 6.2 is more buggy and has much less features than mozilla (tabs, labels, view all headers, favicon, broken image icon...) - there is no Win32 version of Beonex and the linux version is as much beta software as mozilla is - And, most importantly, I follow the Mozilla project, promote it and file bugs to help as much as I can. Just like lots of other end-users. A few observations about what you said : I've been using Mozilla for a year now and I download nightlies very often (I have a fast connection), I've never lost any data and Mozilla was always more stable than NS4, NS6.x or IE5.5/6 on my machine. It may not please developpers, but there are lots of end-users using Mozilla as their primary browser, probably more than NS6.x users. Most of the amateur web designers I know (like me) have installed mozilla and promote it along with W3C standards. All the professional web designers I know (and I know many !) haven't installed it and do not plan to. They work for a target audience which is 80% IE-15% NS4 and their main concerns are called profitability and client deadlines. So before being scornful and rude with end-users, I think that coders should realize that they are their main support. How many ex-NS4 users would now be IE users if we, mozilla *users*, had not shown them an alternative ? More generally, I think that the problem is that some programmers show a clear contempt for users and follow the old "users are too dumb to have a clue" rule. If you look at the thread, you will notice that users do not complain about the lack of spell checker but about the lack of courteasy. Pascal
