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Wonder Why

(4,572 posts) Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:21 PM Oct 2023

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Can DU have the ability to add words to the dictionary?

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Can DU have the ability to add words to the dictionary? (Original Post) Wonder Why Oct 2023 OP

Why do you ask? Did you come up with some good ones? calimary Oct 2023 #1

What dictionary? There are many dictionaries. Ocelot II Oct 2023 #2

Are you talking about the dictionary that underlines words? toddwv Oct 2023 #3

No. The dictionary that is used when one hits the "Show Errors" button when posting. Not one and the same as Wonder Why Oct 2023 #4

Unfortunately I don't think we can do this EarlG Oct 2023 #5

Thanks anyway. Unfortunately, Firefox browser has never seemed to like doing spell checking in Titles Wonder Why Oct 2023 #6

calimary

(84,117 posts)

1. Why do you ask? Did you come up with some good ones?

Reply to Wonder Why (Original post)

Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:24 PM

Oct 2023

Ocelot II

(120,381 posts)

2. What dictionary? There are many dictionaries.

Reply to Wonder Why (Original post)

Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:34 PM

Oct 2023

toddwv

(2,830 posts)

3. Are you talking about the dictionary that underlines words?

Reply to Wonder Why (Original post)

Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:35 PM

Oct 2023

If so, that's a browser feature.

Wonder Why

(4,572 posts)

4. No. The dictionary that is used when one hits the "Show Errors" button when posting. Not one and the same as

Reply to toddwv (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:41 PM

Oct 2023

my browser dictionary which I can update.

EarlG

(22,514 posts)

5. Unfortunately I don't think we can do this

Reply to Wonder Why (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:47 PM

Oct 2023

I mentioned in another thread that the spell checker on DU is an ancient piece of third-party software from at least DU2 and possibly DU1, written in a language which neither Elad nor myself are experts in. We left it in place for legacy reasons, although we had to remove it on the mobile version because we couldn't get it to work.

So ultimately it's there for desktop users who are accustomed to having it, but we're not going to update it further.

Wonder Why

(4,572 posts)

6. Thanks anyway. Unfortunately, Firefox browser has never seemed to like doing spell checking in Titles

Reply to EarlG (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 24, 2023, 03:55 PM

Oct 2023

From Mozilla:

Automatic spell-checking is only turned on for text boxes containing more than one line, where you can enter as much text as you want.

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