Things the world needs, #4938

[jducoeur]

The heck with being able to share bookmarks between machines -- I want to be able to share my bloody *dictionary*. I confess, this business of having to add "Pennsic" to the dictionary in every program on every computer I use gets old after a while. (Yes, yes -- I could just ignore the red underlines. But the pedant in me sees that blood-red mark with real pain.)

Really, it would be pretty easy to write an online system that lets you define your personal dictionary extensions, and that maybe even allows you to share them with friends. The only tricky part is getting programs to make use of it. Might make a good Firefox extension to start with, though...

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Yet another reason to use a Mac...

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

Okay, you're still confined to a single user/computer, but the spell checking on a Mac is a system service, using a common dictionary with all (well, most) programs. If I add Pennsic in Mail, then the dictionary in Safari, Pages, Keynote and most third party apps will recognize it as a valid word. (Microsoft being the major exception - Firefox currently doesn't use the system but has doing so as a goal.)

[cellio]

Instead of ignoring the invasive blood-red marks, I turn 'em off. Yeah, I'd rather have a useful spelling checker, but it's too much trouble to build. :-(