On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Ian Fette <i...@chromium.org> wrote: > We actually looked into this earlier. One thing that stopped us from doing > so is that the "corrections" are not based on proper spelling, but based > rather on searches and results. The masses are not always right, and we > thought it might be strange for your "dictionary" to be offering you > spelling "corrections" that were not actually correct, but rather popular. > Subjective question: Is it really appropriate for your dictionary to suggest > changing "lozx" to "lolz"? (Or a dictionary that thinks "twelf" is fine, > because it's the name of a logic programming language, when in reality most > people are probably looking for "twelfth"?)
For me it is appropriate, since it is what I already do. I could see there perhaps being some UI that separates the "google suggestions". My underlying complaint is really that the spell checker didn't seem to work well, so I'll wait and see if like Brett said, it's better on trunk. - a --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
