On 29/12/2015 08:28, Philip Chee wrote:
Time to fork
I disagree. It's time to get it right:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1235506
Jorg K.
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On 29/12/2015 07:28, Philip Chee wrote:
Time to fork! Like the en-GB dictionary on AMO has vastly more words
(190.000+)that the official upstream.
Philip, not sure if you are referring to my en_GB fork.
When I grabbed the project around two years ago, the original dictionary
(also the update
On 29/12/2015 07:15, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:51:01PM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
>> On 28/12/2015 23:45, Mike Hommey wrote:
>>> We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem...
>>> we're essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer
>>> upstream ve
On 29/12/2015 06:51, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
> On 28/12/2015 23:45, Mike Hommey wrote:
>> We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem...
>> we're essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer
>> upstream versions, which is time and effort on its own.
> Well,
> https://hg.mo
On 29/12/2015 00:15, Mike Hommey wrote:
Because, we have, in fact, imported a new upstream version. The drop in
size comes from bug 1137544, which is an upstream import...
Hmm, something went wrong from here
https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/huns
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:51:01PM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
> On 28/12/2015 23:45, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem... we're
> >essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer upstream
> >versions, which is time and effort on its own.
> W
On 28/12/2015 23:45, Mike Hommey wrote:
We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem... we're
essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer upstream
versions, which is time and effort on its own.
Well,
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/log/tip/extensions/spellcheck
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:32:17PM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
> On 28/12/2015 20:31, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
> >For example, the Mozilla dictionary only knows "zucchini", whereas the
> >add-on dictionary also knows "Zulu" and other words starting with "zu".
> >I'd hate to think that we'd need to crea
On 28/12/2015 20:31, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
For example, the Mozilla dictionary only knows "zucchini", whereas the
add-on dictionary also knows "Zulu" and other words starting with
"zu". I'd hate to think that we'd need to create 7265 bugs to add all
the missing words.
OK, I was wrong, this is
We could research using native spell checking apis if the platform supports
them. For example Windows added spell checking apis in Windows 8.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh869748%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Jörg Knobloch wrote:
> Thirdly, the add-on dictionary contains 13% more words than the Mozilla
> maintained dictionary, and I think in dictionaries, bigger is better.
This is not always true for spelling correction, because there may be
common words that can be m
Recently I was browsing some bugs in "Core::Spelling checker" and much
to my surprise found four bugs where people complained about wrong or
missing words in the en-US dictionary. There were two bugs where people
complained about words in the German and the French dictionaries.
The German and
On 12/22/15 5:38 PM, Ben Kelly wrote:
> I'd rather see us do:
>
> 1) Raise the visibility of oranges. Post the most frequent intermittents
> without an owner to dev-platform every N days.
While I am all for raising awareness of oranges, I don't think posting
them to dev-platform is the right thi
Hi everyone,
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