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  • D DaveX86

    Hey, you know what we should do?...make a CSharpScript browser plugin to run it 'sorry, no spelling check unless you install the CSharpScript plugin' :)

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    OriginalGriff
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    Trouble is there would have to be at least three of 'em: Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Maybe an IE6 one for the companies that won't let people use a "proper" browser? :laugh:

    You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

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      I'm not after spell-ckecking - every decent browser already has that. I've after spell fixing. But really, not even spelling: just punctuation and stuff. Light touch to make a big difference.

      cheers Chris Maunder

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      DaveAuld
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      But clearly there is a lack of use by many. At least if there appears to be errors flagged by the JS implementation, you could flag a message "Hey, dunderhead, it looks like you have issues to sort out, fix them before submitting!" :rolleyes:

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        Trouble is there would have to be at least three of 'em: Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Maybe an IE6 one for the companies that won't let people use a "proper" browser? :laugh:

        You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

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        DaveX86
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        We'll just do one for IE and open source it...the rest can add it if they want...IE's market share will go up and they will all get in line :)

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        • C Chris Maunder

          I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?

          cheers Chris Maunder

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          MacSpudster
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          My voat iz fer a kontezt. Cuz, the codez and kommentz that ppl right should b ur choice 2 regul8, what, az owner of the boardz around hear, though im not sure. Plz consider thiz a YEZ voat, so i then did the rite thing. However, my voat's mileage may vary. ;P

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          • C Chris Maunder

            I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?

            cheers Chris Maunder

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            Lost User
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            This is a paragraph.

            from http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_spellcheck.asp[^]

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            • C Chris Maunder

              That's actually a required part of the spec.

              cheers Chris Maunder

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              Jorgen Andersson
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              :thumbsup:

              Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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                This is a paragraph.

                from http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_spellcheck.asp[^]

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                Chris Maunder
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                See reply[^]

                cheers Chris Maunder

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                  This is a paragraph.

                  from http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_spellcheck.asp[^]

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                  Pete OHanlon
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                  It's automatic speech correction that he's after, not spell checking. So, you'd want to correct text speech from things like ur to your.

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                  • C Chris Maunder

                    I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?

                    cheers Chris Maunder

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                    MacSpudster
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                    Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work. "yeah, that means the lot of you" is more accurate. Though, that may get confused with "yeah, that means allot of you," which implies not the whole "lot of us," of which my using 'the whole "lot"' might further confuse others to discern I mean "a whole lot" which, like "allot of you," doesn't mean the whole "lot of you" that "lot" is describing, which is the whole of us. So, now you (the singular "you," you being the reader, of which, when there is more than a singular "you" reader, collectively, all you readers would also be the "lot of you" readers, though not the lot of you the original "lot of you" denotes) know. :-D

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                    • C Chris Maunder

                      I have checked. There's stuff that's close. But not as fun as making it perfect ourselves and having an excuse to throw some prizes out... ;)

                      cheers Chris Maunder

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                      Ah, so you're trying to kill a few more kittens. Carry on.

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                      • C Chris Maunder

                        I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?

                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                        Mark_Wallace
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                        It wouldn't take me an hour to write a "Reject" button that sends an e-mail saying "Clean up your language use, or it won't be published". Attempts to automate language corrections normally end up creating as many problems as they solve (e.g. how many amongst us have ever used "i" as a loop-control variable or a tag to indicate italicisation?)

                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                        • C Chris Maunder

                          See reply[^]

                          cheers Chris Maunder

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                          Lost User
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                          There are some dictionary based libraries like this one: https://code.google.com/p/bjspell/downloads/detail?name=BJSpell.js&can=2&q=[^] that can be forked maybe.

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                          • M Mark_Wallace

                            It wouldn't take me an hour to write a "Reject" button that sends an e-mail saying "Clean up your language use, or it won't be published". Attempts to automate language corrections normally end up creating as many problems as they solve (e.g. how many amongst us have ever used "i" as a loop-control variable or a tag to indicate italicisation?)

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                            Chris Maunder
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                            If it were easy it wouldn't be a challenge.

                            cheers Chris Maunder

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                              I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?

                              cheers Chris Maunder

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                              You firing it up onto Github or something? If so, I'll definitely throw a few hours at it :)

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                                Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work. "yeah, that means the lot of you" is more accurate. Though, that may get confused with "yeah, that means allot of you," which implies not the whole "lot of us," of which my using 'the whole "lot"' might further confuse others to discern I mean "a whole lot" which, like "allot of you," doesn't mean the whole "lot of you" that "lot" is describing, which is the whole of us. So, now you (the singular "you," you being the reader, of which, when there is more than a singular "you" reader, collectively, all you readers would also be the "lot of you" readers, though not the lot of you the original "lot of you" denotes) know. :-D

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                                Chris Maunder
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                                MacSpudster wrote:

                                Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work.

                                It's technically correct and perfect grammar when speaking Australian.

                                cheers Chris Maunder

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                                  MacSpudster wrote:

                                  Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work.

                                  It's technically correct and perfect grammar when speaking Australian.

                                  cheers Chris Maunder

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                                  MacSpudster
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                                  My point exactly! The contest, er project specs, could include the option to qualify which language/nation the author is "typing" in. Or, perhaps, submit for 'inclusion' into a back-end repository of acceptable words and/or phrases. Then again, there would likely be hourly, nay, minutely submissions of "Plz accept 'plz' as an acceptable word". :doh:

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                                  • C Chris Maunder

                                    I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?

                                    cheers Chris Maunder

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                                    Lost User
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                                    Is it just me or is this just a semi-respectable way of getting us to do your work? ;P "Gee Huck, Gee Becky... whitewashing this fence sure is fun!"

                                    Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington

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                                      Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                                      It almost makes JavaScript enjoyable

                                      How can you not love Javascript[^]?

                                      cheers Chris Maunder

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                                      TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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                                      https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wa[^]

                                      Quote:

                                      The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.

                                      Bad Link!

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                                        I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain. A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation. Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up. Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs). Yay or nay: any interest?

                                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                                        dandy72
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                                        The grammar Nazi in me would make it a three-strike rule. And if you write "urgentz", the account gets suspended for a day. :-p

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                                        • C Chris Maunder

                                          I'm not after spell-ckecking - every decent browser already has that. I've after spell fixing. But really, not even spelling: just punctuation and stuff. Light touch to make a big difference.

                                          cheers Chris Maunder

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                                          Sander Rossel
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                                          Chris Maunder wrote:

                                          I'm not after spell-ckecking

                                          Obviously :rolleyes:

                                          It's an OO world.

                                          public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
                                          {
                                          public void DoWork()
                                          {
                                          throw new NotSupportedException();
                                          }
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