Dare I say that the Newsgroups are dead?

It appears that the Forum has completey overtaken the Newsgroups. There have been no articles for 3 days and those that have been posted in the last month have come from a handful of users! My survey includes beta, files, general, greek, hebrew, macintosh, pbb, searching, setup, espanol and suggestions.

However, the Forums still need improvements and seem to be going backwards in some respects:-

- navigation can be better as per the many suggestions posted e.g. "mark all read" in Home page filters.

- spell checker is sometimes absent

- links to files now require manual tinkering of a long URL compared to the much shorter links used originally.

- spurious words appear after editing an external quote (text that is formatted differently to the Forum default).

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Matthew C Jones

spell checker is sometimes absent

The sporadic functionality of spell checker is killing me. If it were never there, I would compensate. If it were always there, I would be safe.

It is this never knowing that makes for difficult posting.

Floyd Johnson

- spell checker is sometimes absent

I have never seen it - did not even know it existed. Where should I be looking?

Floyd

Floyd Johnson

Dare I say that the Newsgroups are dead?

RIP [:(]

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3922#Comment_3922

- spell checker is sometimes absent

I have never seen it - did not even know it existed. Where should I be looking?

Floyd

I use Firefox and I always thought the spell-checker is part of Firefox. It works well for me. Just sometimes I need to help it with intentional mistake and it starts to show up.

Matthew C Jones

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3925#Comment_3925

- spell checker is sometimes absent

I have never seen it - did not even know it existed. Where should I be looking?

Floyd

I use Firefox and I always thought the spell-checker is part of Firefox. It works well for me. Just sometimes I need to help it with intentional mistake and it starts to show up.

I thought it was part of the forum software. I have been running IE7 all week and the spell checker is still sporadic. Maybe it is on my end.

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3925#Comment_3925

I use Firefox and I always thought the spell-checker is part of Firefox.

Though I cannot prove it - it appears that you may be right. I normally use Opera as my default browser - it does not work there. I also tried to create a new message in Internet Explorer - and the spell checker was absent. But when I turned to Firefox, I saw the availability a spell checker for the first time. Thanks for the tip.

Blessings,

Floyd

J.R. Miller

- spell checker is sometimes absent

Mac's have a built in spell checker that works on all websites... are you sure there is nothing in Windows that will spell check for you?

George Somsel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3928#Comment_3928

- spell checker is sometimes absent
Mac's have a built in spell checker that works on all websites... are you sure there is nothing in Windows that will spell check for you?

I have a spell checker. It sits at the keyboard. [:D]

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3929#Comment_3929

I have a spell checker. It sits at the keyboard.

Good one. OK, let's send all posts to George and he will check them for us [:D]

I know Firefox has a spell-checker because we use it also for the Czech language and it works great. I haven't find any IE spell-checker yet. Definitely not in the Czech language.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3928#Comment_3928

are you sure there is nothing in Windows that will spell check for you?

I've assumed it was the forum when composing or editing as the context menu is different e.g. "Check Spelling" (checked) and "Languages ->" appear here. In a text box in another web page I get "Check Spelling" (unchecked) and "Adblock Image" (a Firefox addon).

Fast Forward. When I check the "spelling" option the "Languages ->" option appears! I've checked the FF Option for "check my spelling as I type" so I wasn't expecting the context menu "spelling" option to be unchecked.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3931#Comment_3931

I know Firefox has a spell-checker because we use it also for the Czech language and it works great. I haven't find any IE spell-checker yet. Definitely not in the Czech language.

How do you know it is the FF spell checker? In what context do you see it working?

Thanks,

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3935#Comment_3935

How do you know it is the FF spell checker? In what context do you see it working?

Thanks,

Well, when I use IE8 no spell-checking is present. In Firefox 3.5 I have an addon working as a spell-checker. I assume with the English language it is the same. It works for me in any place on Internet I need it, when I use Firefox. Below you can see my addons in Firefox. You can see there (I am sorry for the Czech language) 3 spell-checkers:
US English, Polish and Czech. Great stuff. I like FiIrefox.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3940#Comment_3940

In Firefox 3.5 I have an addon working as a spell-checker.

It is indeed the FF spell checker that works within text entry boxes/fields like this, and I have enabled an English (Australian) dictionary so I always spell 'colour' correctly. But the spell checker is not active as I write this.

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3926#Comment_3926

Here is one idea - could we get LOGOS to install it on there end?

http://download.cnet.com/Web-Browser-Spell-Check/3000-2356_4-24212.html

Blessings,

Floyd

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3943#Comment_3943

It is indeed the FF spell checker that works within text entry boxes/fields like this, and I have enabled an English (Australian) dictionary so I always spell 'colour' correctly. But the spell checker is not active as I write this.

It works great for me, but sometimes it looks like I have to help it to initiate that I do some obvious mistake and it starts to work than.

David Ladiges

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/3944#Comment_3944

Floyd,

Your question prompted me to go check the status of spell checking in the major browsers and I found the following:

It looks like Mac browsers all use the system spell checker.

Firefox and Chrome users have a built in
spell checker. (If Chrome's may be a bit glitchy at times...)

Opera users can enable spell checking with Gnu Aspell if they desire (http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/spellcheck/).

IE users can use http://www.iespell.com/ or the Google Toolbar to provide spell-checking but these aren't available by default.

It may make sense to implement a spell checker for the browsers that haven't gotten this feature quite yet, but this really does seem to be trending to being implemented on the client rather than on a site by site basis.

So if you are using a browser that doesn't have spell check built in, try some of these options, and I'll look more into implementing the spell check as I get the opportunity to do so.

Thanks!

David

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/4001#Comment_4001

I'll look more into implementing the spell check as I get the opportunity to do so.

Thanks David.

Ralph Mauch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/4036#Comment_4036

One way would be to copy everything into a word doc, or something comparable... I use the google spell checker, but with my version 7 of IE it sometimes does weird stuff. There is a spell check in the section directly above where I'm typing, but mine wasn't installed, and asks me if I want to install?

NOW, how about Notes in Libronix?

Ralph

Mark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/4052#Comment_4052

I deleted the newsgroup software from my computer last week, and was happy to do so....but with all the recent tangeants on the forum here, I am beginning to believe I was premature in deleting the software. It seems OT are beginning to dominate here and I am seeing less discussion about Libronix itself.

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/4172#Comment_4172

I deleted the newsgroup software from my computer last week, and was
happy to do so....but with all the recent tangeants on the forum here,
I am beginning to believe I was premature in deleting the software. It
seems OT are beginning to dominate here and I am seeing less discussion
about Libronix itself.

I think you're mistaken about that. The OT discussion is confined to 3 or 4 main threads, and I see a lot more users posting here than in the forums. I find it easier to avoid reading the OT threads here than it was in the newsgroups.

If you return to the newsgroups, you'll find even less Libronix discussion.

Dr. Charles A. Wootten

Just my .02 on the matter of a spell checker: D'you suppose that folks who finally find the ultimate spell checker will be able to differentiate between "your" and "you're," between "they're," "their," and "there," among others (even though there is a very, very slight pronunciation difference in the last 3)?

Then, on the newsgroups: there are several of us still lurking there. If I deleted my NG software, then I'd have no e-mail access. Thunderbird does it all and easily. If I left the NGs, then I'd get lost in this morass called "forums." Hence, rare posts here from me on something I can't resist. Because of folks' concern over the tremendous amount of off-topic chatter, I'll even hold my breath that many will return to the NGs. I get all the forae via RSS in Thunderbird (told ya it did it all) to fill a need to see what's going on.

And that's all I have to say about that.

{charley}