Comments on: Cheeky gits…

By: John CC

John CC — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:45:32 +0000

I had similar from a well-known supermarket in the UK, but when I checked they had not charged me any extra for the substitution. I assume this was some sort of sweetener to say sorry for not having the thing you wanted! Are you sure they charged you for the three replacements?

By: Florent V.

Florent V. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:29:56 +0000

I found the Firefox extension: “Dictionary Switcher”
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/3414

There’s a manual mode where you can click in the status bar to switch dictionaries (if you use only two or three dictionaries it might be quicker than the right-click thing), an automated mode where the dictionary is chosen based on the `lang` information, and then an experimental “Detect as I type” mode.

By: Florent V.

Florent V. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:49:18 +0000

Well, I use four dictionaries myself:
- British English;
- American English;
- French (classical);
- French (1990 reform).
(And then I have South African English, and I really don’t know why.)

I just right-click on textareas to change the reference dictionary.

«Wonder if this is sensitive to xml:lang or the HTML ‘lang’ attribute?»
As of Firefox 2.0.x, no, it’s not.
I thought there was an extension that took care of this, but I can’t seem to find it.

By: andrewc

andrewc — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:33:28 +0000

Completely random, but the FF dictionary can be set on the right button menu under Languages. It’s sticky, IIRC, and applies to all websites and forms from that point on; it’s also settable from about:config (spellchecker.dictionary = en_GB). Wonder if this is sensitive to xml:lang or the HTML ‘lang’ attribute?

I tend to make it spellcheck all form fields, not just textareas (layout.spellcheckDefault = 3). As a result, my spelling is getting progressively worse.