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[Paul Newton]

Hi Everybody,

 

I am using firefox (v29.0.1), I have a British English dictionary installed, when I am on a non-Netduino site with an edit box, I can right click in the text box and verify that I have the spell chekcer enabled, and if I make a mistake, the text is underlined (I make lits of spolling mastakes).

 

On the Netduino Forums, right click does not give me the firefox menu, and the above mistakes are not underlined in red as they would be on another site's text box.

 

Is there any way to get the spill chocker working??

Does the same thing happen with Internet Explorer?

 

Paul

[Nevyn]

Do not know about IE but the spill chucker seems to be working OK with the edit boxes in Chrome on this site.

 

Regards,

Mark

[Mario Vernari]

Paul, did you try to analyze the HTTP traffic outgoing the browser?

I don't know the Firefox tools, but there's an awesome (free) tool by Microsoft which can help you for sure:

http://www.microsoft...s.aspx?id=40308

 

NOTE: it's not trashware. I used several time for deep network analysis and it works fine. Also offers the loopback traffic capability!

 

Cheers

[Paul Newton]

Thanks guys,

 

I don't want to use Chrome. I have a few suspicions about what it does in the background.

 

I have not looked at the HTML, was just hoping that if someone else is using Firefox OK, they could let me know what I am doing wrong.

 

Perhaps Secret Labs have tested the site with a few brewsors and have a list of wirkong ones.... Nudge.

 

Paul

[wendo]

What _do_ you get when you right click in the edit box? Websites can replace the right click menu, but working around that is pretty simple with add-ons, but before you go down that road you'd want to confirm that's whats going on

[Paul Newton]

What _do_ you get when you right click in the edit box? Websites can replace the right click menu, but working around that is pretty simple with add-ons, but before you go down that road you'd want to confirm that's whats going on

Thanks Wendo, you got me clicking and I managed to solve the problem.

 

What I found is that the right click menu changes with the amount of text in the edit box.

• If there is only one line, then the menu does not have the option for the spell checker.
• If there is another line, then the "proper" menu is there.

 

I have now managed to enable the spill chequer, unfortunately the using the wrong word checker is not enabled.

 

The screen shots of the two menus are below. As you can see, in both edit boxes the gggg is underlined in red now that have enabled the checker, but the menu options to control are missing in one.

 

Paul

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[Frode]

Paul, those two rightclick context menus are for two different HTML elements. The one with the spill chocker is from the <textarea> where you type text, the other one seems to be for an <iframe>. My guess is that it isn't the amount of text, but rather where in the textbox you rightclick that matters.

Try typing just a single word, and then rightclick on the word itself.

In your two examples you can try clicking the last menuitem, "Inspect Element", and you should see that you end up in two different part of the HTML source.

[Paul Newton]

Paul, those two rightclick context menus are for two different HTML elements. The one with the spill chocker is from the <textarea> where you type text, the other one seems to be for an <iframe>. My guess is that it isn't the amount of text, but rather where in the textbox you rightclick that matters.

Try typing just a single word, and then rightclick on the word itself.

In your two examples you can try clicking the last menuitem, "Inspect Element", and you should see that you end up in two different part of the HTML source.

OK I give up.

 

I just spent a minute right clicking and found that it seems to go in runs of one menu or the other.

I just right clicked with no text at all this time.

At first it seemed like clicking near the flashing cursor gave the spell checker menu, but I found that once that menu is up, clicking further away gives the same menu.

Eventually it changed when I was half way across the edit box and then as I worked my way back towards the cursor, I kept getting the non-spell checker menu.

 

Once I had started typing this, I could no-longer get the wrong menu, so I'm not sure about the object inspection.

 

I have decided that I don't care why its doing it. If you keep clicking in different places, you will eventually get the required menu and then will be able to enable the spell checker. The more text the easier it gets.

 

I have already spotted several mistakes as I am typing this - so I'm happy (if still confused).

 

Thanks everyone - Paul