No spell checker??

[zoiDman]

Actually I don't mind people insulting me, it's entertaining. Also if IE users don't insult me I tend to feel my job is not done properly yet

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LOL...

Bye the weigh. What is sow rong with note havein a Speel Checher?

 

[Uncle]

You know what - I'll give it a try then . . .

But - One question . . . Do you really think, even if everyone went "Opera" that NO ONE would have anything to complain about using this browser (or anything else with the Forum)

SO - Far the interface it Horrible

Cannot set Favorites/Bookmarks in the task line - I've got to open the pannel each and everytime I want to go to a "Favorite" Link . . . and worse of all everything is now just "Mixed-up" and I cannot move the favorite files I created or the Links to ECF to the top of my Favorite LIST - which is without a doubt a HUGH BUMMER ! ! !

But because YOU said this browser is so much better then all the rest - I'll keep trying - but right now all I can say is - WTF ! ! ! !

 

[rolygate]

Well, I didn't say Opera is 'better' or 'the best', I said I like it. It's very fast (it has the fastest Javascript engine currently) and is simple to use when you have converted. It's not the same as other browsers, you have to play with it a little to learn its ways.

All browsers are different, you just need to find how they work - often it is in a completely different way to what you may be used to. For example, with Opera you should use the Speed Dial page, not Bookmarks (you leave Bookmarks for folders of multiple links that are not used daily).

OK let's do an Opera tute.

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Go to the top menu >> Tools >> Preferences >> General tab...... Startup...... set spin box to: Start with Speed Dial.

Go to the site you want to create a bookmark/favorite for - ECF of course.

Open a new tab by hitting the + button on the tab bar. This is the Speed Dial page. It is a very good feature and you will soon realise how carp other browser's 'bookmark' lists are.

Right-click the page and choose Configure Speed Dial......... Set the spin box to 5 columns.

Now click on the vacant slot for a website, it has a + on it I think. You'll see that it loads ECF as one of the choices. Click on the image of ECF.

OK now you have ECF as your first 'favorite'. Go to a few more sites and load them. Adjust the order of the sites by click & drag.

Now close the browser, then re-open it. It opens on the Speed Dial page. Hit the site you want. You can have 20 or 30 on this 'visual bookmark' page if you want.

Just use the top menu Bookmarks menu button for folders you create in Manage Bookmarks. Put the bulk of sites in those folders. The Speed Dial is clearer and faster for frequently-visited sites. It's different, because other browsers don't have a speed dial.


You can also have the browser open on your 'home page' if preferred (see Preferences). The + button on the tab bar opens a speed dial page for you.

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[tonyorion]

Actually, there is a way to use IE Explorer to do a spell check in ECF. All you need to do is type in your text as normal. When you are finished, left click at the end of the posting (or the beginning) and hold the left mouse button down to the beginning (or end depending on where you started) to highlight the text. Alternatively, you can click in the beginning and let go of the mouse button, then go to the end while holding the shift key. Left click your mouse, and the text will highlight.

The right click on the text and a menu with the spell check option will come up. When it is finished checking the highlighted portion, it will ask if it needs to check the rest of the document. You can do that and then criticize everyone else's spelling in the spirit of giving for the Holiday Season. It is also helps to vent your frustrations out on others rather than beating your wife, husband, boyfriendgirlfriendnd, or all of them together. In the interest of being politically correct, I did not want to leave anyone out, lest the ACLU comes after me.

There is one caveat, however. It has been a long time since I set this PC up so I don't remember if IE is using the dictionary from Microsoft Word or not. I don't believe so.

Remember, it ain't no grammar checker!

 

[progg]

Two add-ons for IE for spell checking are : ieSpell -- which doesn't do an in-line check. Back when I used to use IE, I used this one, and it wasn't bad. From what I can see it hasn't been updated since 2/20/10. [Does it work with IE9 and windows 7?]


And Speckie -- which is an in-line spell checker. It was updated approx 11/24/11.

The links are to cnet -- both programs have their own website and are freeware.

 

[Uncle]

Actually, there is a way to use IE Explorer to do a spell check in ECF. All you need to do is type in your text as normal. When you are finished, left click at the end of the posting (or the beginning) and hold the left mouse button down to the beginning (or end depending on where you started) to highlight the text. Alternatively, you can click in the beginning and let go of the mouse button, then go to the end while holding the shift key. Left click your mouse, and the text will highlight.

The right click on the text and a menu with the spell check option will come up. When it is finished checking the highlighted portion, it will ask if it needs to check the rest of the document. You can do that and then criticize everyone else's spelling in the spirit of giving for the Holiday Season. It is also helps to vent your frustrations out on others rather than beating your wife, husband, boyfriendgirlfriendnd, or all of them together. In the interest of being politically correct, I did not want to leave anyone out, lest the ACLU comes after me.

There is one caveat, however. It has been a long time since I set this PC up so I don't remember if IE is using the dictionary from Microsoft Word or not. I don't believe so.

Remember, it ain't no grammar checker!

NOPE cannot do that - All I can do is highlight the words like you mentioned but then I have the use the application below - the ieSpell . . .

Two add-ons for IE for spell checking are : ieSpell -- which doesn't do an in-line check. Back when I used to use IE, I used this one, and it wasn't bad. From what I can see it hasn't been updated since 2/20/10. [Does it work with IE9 and windows 7?]


And Speckie -- which is an in-line spell checker. It was updated approx 11/24/11.

The links are to cnet -- both programs have their own website and are freeware.

Yep - THANKS ! ! ! Got the ieSpell a while ago - it sits under the Tools in the Task line on top of IE . . . and while it does work it is not as convienant as when I was using the ABC Icon . . .


OH - BTW: as for Grammar and my use of same . . . THAT one is just going to be what it is BAD ! ! !

 

[Uncle]

THANKS for going out of your way for the "Tutorial" . . . I'm am going to try all this and even do some more "Learning" (Love to Learn more new "Stuff") . . . .

But like I have always said "You can be so Intelligent - You are Stupid" - well you proved my point again . . . Untill you mentioned what it was for - I thought the "Speed Dial" option was for "Chatting" in a chat room or to use with "Skype" - not a new type interface like some people use on their "Smart Phone" or on your computer where you could open all your "Bookmarks/Favorites" and leave them set on the "Desktop" as an open page . . . GEES


BTW: There is a limited Menu Bar on the Opera, but nothing like what I can find similar to the IE - All I found was the Opera "Tab" that I can see setting and other options available to me . . . The "Menu Bar" only allows me to open my computer files, save, print, find, home, tile, cascade, and voice . . .

Well, I didn't say Opera is 'better' or 'the best', I said I like it. It's very fast (it has the fastest Javascript engine currently) and is simple to use when you have converted. It's not the same as other browsers, you have to play with it a little to learn its ways.

All browsers are different, you just need to find how they work - often it is in a completely different way to what you may be used to. For example, with Opera you should use the Speed Dial page, not Bookmarks (you leave Bookmarks for folders of multiple links that are not used daily).

OK let's do an Opera tute.

---------------------------
Go to the top menu >> Tools >> Preferences >> General tab...... Startup...... set spin box to: Start with Speed Dial.

Go to the site you want to create a bookmark/favorite for - ECF of course.

Open a new tab by hitting the + button on the tab bar. This is the Speed Dial page. It is a very good feature and you will soon realise how carp other browser's 'bookmark' lists are.

Right-click the page and choose Configure Speed Dial......... Set the spin box to 5 columns.

Now click on the vacant slot for a website, it has a + on it I think. You'll see that it loads ECF as one of the choices. Click on the image of ECF.

OK now you have ECF as your first 'favorite'. Go to a few more sites and load them. Adjust the order of the sites by click & drag.

Now close the browser, then re-open it. It opens on the Speed Dial page. Hit the site you want. You can have 20 or 30 on this 'visual bookmark' page if you want.

Just use the top menu Bookmarks menu button for folders you create in Manage Bookmarks. Put the bulk of sites in those folders. The Speed Dial is clearer and faster for frequently-visited sites. It's different, because other browsers don't have a speed dial.


You can also have the browser open on your 'home page' if preferred (see Preferences). The + button on the tab bar opens a speed dial page for you.

----------------------------

 

[zoiDman]

Actually, there is a way to use IE Explorer to do a spell check in ECF. All you need to do is type in your text as normal. When you are finished, left click at the end of the posting (or the beginning) and hold the left mouse button down to the beginning (or end depending on where you started) to highlight the text. Alternatively, you can click in the beginning and let go of the mouse button, then go to the end while holding the shift key. Left click your mouse, and the text will highlight.

The right click on the text and a menu with the spell check option will come up. When it is finished checking the highlighted portion, it will ask if it needs to check the rest of the document. You can do that and then criticize everyone else's spelling in the spirit of giving for the Holiday Season. It is also helps to vent your frustrations out on others rather than beating your wife, husband, boyfriendgirlfriendnd, or all of them together. In the interest of being politically correct, I did not want to leave anyone out, lest the ACLU comes after me.

There is one caveat, however. It has been a long time since I set this PC up so I don't remember if IE is using the dictionary from Microsoft Word or not. I don't believe so.

Remember, it ain't no grammar checker!

Or you can do what I do when I don't want to look like a 4th Grade Spelling Bee Rube.

And that is type your post in an Outlook e-Mail, use the Spell Checker, and then Copy and Paste into the ECF Reply Box.

 

[progg]

OH - BTW: as for Grammar and my use of same . . . THAT one is just going to be what it is BAD ! ! !

Let's eat Grandma. Let's eat, Grandma. It's only words.

 

[tiburonfirst]

I don't know why you lot don't use Opera like me, it just works.

we just don't like it!!!!

and roly, ie users do not insult website managers! we are a most courteous bunch - lt's a proven fact

@ uncle - i do have pretty much the same specs as you and do not experience those problems. as to spell checker - i prefer to be without. i've seen too many examples of correctly spelled sentences that didn't make a lick of sense (scents )

Merry Christmas, ECF!

 

[Uncle]

Okay I'm Done - Opera Gotta Go . . . JUST Too much to fix, set-up, reorganizing, installing of plug-ins, etc. etc. etc. for me . . .

Also I just noticed - While I have under "General Seeting" the "Message Editor Interface" set for the "Enhanced Interface" and "Enhanced Attachment Uploading" set for on . . . It seems at the bottom of the Message editing pages it "tells" me that: "HTML code is Off" . . . could this be the problem ? ? ? ?

AND - Since there has been a couple of "Fixes" I am now back to the default "Kirsch" Style . . . instead of the "vB4 Main" style I had to select to see the forum when the "Change" went into effect . . .


Below is the test I did using a new Tablet and IE - almost same problem, except that now I can SEE how that works - Nothing ! ! ! . . .


too much this is test -using MS IE on an android n editing mode

 

[Timtam]

Firefox has the option to import all settings from ie. Seriously, give it a go. Plus, there area lot of addons such as adblock plus which are really good.

 

[progg]

Uncle, I agree with Timtam.

I've been using FF for about 2 years?. I know, I know, you'll have to go through a bit of a learning curve, but it's not excessive. You'll have to find what plug ins you'll need and what add-ons you desire. Whether it's security, convenience, pleasure, etc. you look for via add-ons -- you'll find something that will fit you.

You can always use IE while you learn about and build FF to your needs. I rarely use IE now, and when I do -- it seems foreign to me. And no offense to IE lovers -- with FF set up the way I have it (NoScript in particular), it's undeniably more secure.

*Edit: Out of the box with no add-ons, two neat features are the discussed in-line spell checker and the ability to zoom text only on an active page. That font increase or decrease stays in memory for your next visits.

 

[tiburonfirst]

Okay I'm Done - Opera Gotta Go . . . JUST Too much to fix, set-up, reorganizing, installing of plug-ins, etc. etc. etc. for me . . .

Also I just noticed - While I have under "General Seeting" the "Message Editor Interface" set for the "Enhanced Interface" and "Enhanced Attachment Uploading" set for on . . . It seems at the bottom of the Message editing pages it "tells" me that: "HTML code is Off" . . . could this be the problem ? ? ? ?

AND - Since there has been a couple of "Fixes" I am now back to the default "Kirsch" Style . . . instead of the "vB4 Main" style I had to select to see the forum when the "Change" went into effect . . .


Below is the test I did using a new Tablet and IE - almost same problem, except that now I can SEE how that works - Nothing ! ! ! . . .


too much this is test -using MS IE on an android n editing mode

no, uncle, that can't be it - i have that setting, too ........

 

[DaveP]

I've used Firefox for years and first changed for security reasons. When I have to use my wife's laptop, I find myself grumbling and looking for things I know how to do in FF that are different and cumbersome in IE.

When I post on ECF using Firefox, a misspelled word is underlined in red as soon as I hit the space bar. Firefox, once you use it for a week, becomes like an old friend that you know and respect. Most people are used to their own favorite software and it's a pain to change. Sometimes, that pain turns into joy as you discover how easy it is once you learn the scheme. I love Firefox.

I experienced some of the same feelings when I switched from MS Office to OpenOffice 3. Things I knew how to do were seemingly cryptic. As usual, I used the help function to find the things I needed and soon I was hotkeying my way through everything I needed to do, like a pro. Now, I jump on OpenOffice and fall right back into the groove ... and it's free!

 

[RippleInStillWater]

I had Firefox before and didn't like it -- now what? There has to be more of a solution than that, right?

 

[Timtam]

I had Firefox before and didn't like it -- now what? There has to be more of a solution than that, right?

Forget about how much you may like something and decide if you want functionality or not?
Try opera, like what roly was saying? Try chrome?

 

[Timtam]

no, uncle, that can't be it - i have that setting, too ........

it relates to html in posts.

 

[Uncle]

Now - this is just a discussion - Right ? ? ?

Okay - I agree, things do take time to get use to and change over to something a little different . . . Which I do not mind at all . . . I even like Open Office and have no problem switching Back-n-Forth, along with Corel WordPerfect (which I started with back in the day) . . . As for Browsers, let me just state I dislike IE for a lot of reason, and until now I still have some problems using the browser - but I changed from the old Netscape to all the others before I settled on using IE most of the time (I do use "Safari" when I am on my friends apple stuff - no problems there of course - BUT I DO NOT LIKE APPLES and I am not buying such a propriatory product line). . . I understand it takes a learning curve to get use to something and also that it might take some time . . . BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS ! ! ! AND, when the forum changed - whatever they changed - I have had nothing but problems no matter what IE I use or what OS be it XP home/Pro, Vista, or Windows 7 (I happen to have WIndos XP Pro w/ Update 3 and now have a Tablet and still have problems with stuff here) . . .

AND - As I've mentioned before in this thread, I tried FF - and Chrome - and now Opera . . . I do not like them, nor what I have to go though to get them up and running just for me to be on ECF and still be able to do what I did before the change over. . . BTW, I took the time to learn how to do stuff here already and I am still trying to learn more about "eCig" and Vaping so I can become a "Full-time" Vapor . . . and now it would be better for me to relearn everything again just so I can post stuff like I use to before the change over . . .

On a more personal note, and not that it should matter, however - I am not a typist (peck & paw person), I am not a speller nor grammarian (I have a form of Dyslexia and have to reread and separate sentences so I can correct them before I post) - it takes me almost doule the amount of time some of you take to write even the simplist of post so people are not offend by my directness (that is one of the reason's I started using smilies) and as for them - Well lets just say to find the right ones to use in the right situations and at the right time - OH GESS ! ! ! !

So can I ask - WHY, with all the expertise and everyone that knows so much more than I about programing, Operating systems, Computer langue, Software, etc etc etc . . . instead of trying to get people to switch . . . Why cannot someone fix the problems with this interface (I do not know right now what else to call it) . . .

BTW: I even noticed the other day in the Attachment Mangament - that all the old Smiley are now left there - none are removed and it refuses to let my upload anything saying that I have exceeded the limits . . .

My appologies if this seemed to be a rant or that I was standing on a soap-box . . . But seriously, instead of trying to push me to use something else . . . Can this not be fixed - and if it cannot be fix just tell me that and I will leave it alone and move on from this discussion . . .

 

[Uncle]

BTW: THANK YOU so much for the suggestions and info . . . As I mentioned in my other post - Been there - Done that - Still don't like FF . . . Something about it just doesn't work for me . . .

Like trying to ware a pair of 27 inch waist pants when I ware a MUCH LARGER SIZE

Firefox has the option to import all settings from ie. Seriously, give it a go. Plus, there area lot of addons such as adblock plus which are really good.

Uncle, I agree with Timtam.

I've been using FF for about 2 years?. I know, I know, you'll have to go through a bit of a learning curve, but it's not excessive. You'll have to find what plug ins you'll need and what add-ons you desire. Whether it's security, convenience, pleasure, etc. you look for via add-ons -- you'll find something that will fit you.

You can always use IE while you learn about and build FF to your needs. I rarely use IE now, and when I do -- it seems foreign to me. And no offense to IE lovers -- with FF set up the way I have it (NoScript in particular), it's undeniably more secure.

*Edit: Out of the box with no add-ons, two neat features are the discussed in-line spell checker and the ability to zoom text only on an active page. That font increase or decrease stays in memory for your next visits.

I've used Firefox for years and first changed for security reasons. When I have to use my wife's laptop, I find myself grumbling and looking for things I know how to do in FF that are different and cumbersome in IE.

When I post on ECF using Firefox, a misspelled word is underlined in red as soon as I hit the space bar. Firefox, once you use it for a week, becomes like an old friend that you know and respect. Most people are used to their own favorite software and it's a pain to change. Sometimes, that pain turns into joy as you discover how easy it is once you learn the scheme. I love Firefox.

I experienced some of the same feelings when I switched from MS Office to OpenOffice 3. Things I knew how to do were seemingly cryptic. As usual, I used the help function to find the things I needed and soon I was hotkeying my way through everything I needed to do, like a pro. Now, I jump on OpenOffice and fall right back into the groove ... and it's free!