Eureka Man » Firefox

More on right-clicks and good spelling

Eureka Man — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:16:30 +0000

Just experienced: a reason that web sites hacking the right-click is bad. It’s the same as the usual problems with overriding browser behavior. In Writely, Firefox 2.0 is now very kindly underlining spelling mistakes for me. But when I go to right-click and change the spelling, Writely has very unkindly got rid of my standard right-click menu and I have no access to the suggested changes.

In fact Writely’s right-click is hilarious. If I click ‘copy’ or ‘cut’ or ‘paste’ in their menu i get an error popup saying “We don’t have access to your clipboard from javascript so you can’t use these commands from our very pretty right-click menu”.� But if you hadn’t messed with my right-click menu in the first place, it would work just fine!

Firefox is edumucating me

Eureka Man — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:22:47 +0000

I think spellcheck in every textarea is going to do wonders for my spelling. I’ve almost got over the urge to spell definitely definately already.

Gave up on AllPeers 0.5

Eureka Man — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:14:38 +0000

It just doesn’t have enough workingness yet. Files that don’t show up, or won’t transfer.

Having said that, I did keep trying to use it. If it worked properly I would find it pretty useful. But don’t you feel this should and will be baked into the OS?