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Re-enable your browser's spell checking when posting in Adobe forums

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
November 5, 2021
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If you want to enable your browser's built-in spell checking, which these forums inexplicably disable, I wrote a simple browser userscript that re-enables it. To install the script:

1. Install the free Tampermonkey browser extension.

2. Visit the script's page and click Install:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/435006-re-enable-browser-spell-checking-for-adobe-forums

I've tested this mainly in Chrome but did a quickie test with Firefox using Greasemonkey instead of Tampermonkey.

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johnrellisAuthor

Brainiac

At some point in the last year or so, Khoros finally stopped disabling browser spell checking. It's Thanksgiving, so be thankful.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

It's the lesser things we must be oh so grateful for, yes? 😁

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

C.Cella

Inspiring

Which browser is that? I've only tested the script with Chrome, never tried it with other browsers.

With Chrome, infrequently the script doesn't work with a forum post initially. After perhaps a minute or so, it starts working. This is all outside my expertise and I have no deep experience with such things :-<

But I rely on the script to find my very frequent typos and mispellings.

@johnrellis

I use Chrome and usally it worked.

I was seeing a red dot over the Extension suggesting the script is active and running.

The script is active but seemingly not running.

I wish the forums allowed Google spell check.

Being dyslexic I make constant typos and invert letters, even though I know the right order.

Adobe > Aodbe

So spell check helps a lot.

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I use the forum's built-in Spell Check feature which works well when I remember to use it. 🙂

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Ann Bens

Community Expert

The build in spellchecker is horrible.

I use LanguageTool: shows mistakes instantaneously

Tip from @Abambo

Peru Bob

Community Expert

That works great, Ann. I now have it installed.

johnrellisAuthor

Brainiac

Since these forums migrated to the Khoros (née Lithium) platform two years ago, many people have complained that the forums needlessly disable browsers' built-in spell checking, but the complaints have gone unheeded. As a longterm, frequent participant, I got tired of my own misspellings and reading those of others. The forums' spell-check button is exceedingly lame compared to Chrome (see below) and I never used it.

The script is pretty simple -- it changes the HTML attribute 'spellcheck = "false"' to 'spellcheck = "true"'.

Here is what I posted a year ago in the forum for moderators:

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It's sad but not surprising that we have to explain to Khoros product managers why the Chrome spell checker is far superior to the Khoros checker:

- Chrome checks automatically as you type. With Khoros, you have to remember to click the spell-check button, which can take more than a few seconds depending on the platform's current performance. Seems trivial but it's a significant inconvenience when answering many posts, and I usually neglect to click the button.

- Chrome is more accurate, with far fewer false positives and negatives. For example, Chrome's dictionary includes many technical terms (e.g. "Lua") and brand names (e.g. "Khoros") that Khoros does not. "Khoros" isn't in their own dictionary! Khoros flags "https:" and other strings contained in URLs, while Chrome ignores URLs.

- Chrome's suggested corrections are much better. While Khoros usually includes the right correction in its list, it's usually not the first one. Examples:

o "believes": Chrome suggests "believes", while it's the fourth Khoros suggestion.
o "thier": Chrome suggests "their", while it's the second Khoros suggestion.
o "supireor": Chrome suggests "superior", while it's the second Khoros suggestion.
o "cheker": Chrome suggests "checker", while it's the fourth Khoros suggestion.

- Chrome lets you add words to its dictionary.

- Chrome automatically detects the language and corrects appropriately, which is important in these forums with people posting in multiple languages in a single thread. Khoros uses the language of the browser, which is difficult for a user with the browser set to German but posting an English reply.

- Chrome supports many more languages.

- Khoros highlights misspelled words with a red underline. You can't correct one or two letters by clicking in the middle of the word, since clicking on the word shows the list of suggestions -- your only choice is to delete the entire word or backspace from the end. Not an issue with Chrome.

It's trivial for Khoros to re-enable the browser spell checker -- they just have to omit the attribute 'spellcheck="false"' from the <body> element creating the input box. This was pointed out a year ago:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/using-the-community/re-enable-browser-spell-checking/m-p/10695781?page=1#M486

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