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Why a plug-in has to send everything through the web instead of just having a dictionary is beyond me.
by iopq 10y ago
Why a plug-in has to send everything through the web instead of just having a dictionary is beyond me.
- andrepd 10y agoJesus, it doesn't. So go fork it and change that! It doesn't mean other people aren't free to design their plugin as they see fit.
- andreareina 10y agoBecause it's more time and effort to make a service that checks spelling (are you accounting for stems? Possessives? Other uses of the single quote such as contractions?) and suggests corrections than to wrap an already-existing service that does the same. I find it highly plausible that the author of the plug-in wrote it to solve their needs and just made it available because hey, it doesn't cost them anything.
- yAnonymous 10y agoI want to believe, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11805189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11805189 Instant uninstall. This is exactly the kind of crap I expected when MS announced they'd invest in open source.
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- Houshalter 10y agoI've found local spellcheckers really unreliable. They never catch obscure or niche words, or grammar. Chrome has an option to ask google for spelling suggestions and it makes it much more reliable.