Christopher Jahn wrote:
> And it came to pass that Marc Paré wrote:
>
>
>>Hi everyone:
>>
>>As I see from many people's discussions the spell checker
>>seems to matter to many and not matter to as many people. I
>>know from my perspective as a school teacher, I encourage my
>>students to keep an open mind on various browsers and the
>>lack of a spell checker in Mozilla makes it that more
>>difficult to recommend for classroom use.
>>
>
> I don't want you teaching MY kids. They should be learning how
> to spell, and their teachers should be teaching them.
>
> Spell checkers ultimately aren't worth much; all they do is
> recognize words. If you use the wrong word correctly spilled,
> the spall chick won't ketch it.
>
> Sew ewe should start teaching the kids car wrecked spilling, sue
> they well bee shore to right like they've bin educated. Its
> people like yew that erode hour literacy raid.
>
>
<delurk>
Cripes! Easy there... this guy is trying to get Mozilla into classroom
use (a great thing IMHO). I mean, anything that stops computer kids from
learning to type: i own j00 i am 3l33t is a plus in my book. In my
experience, the speed at which things get sent in the digital age has
made people much _less_ concerned about spelling and punctuation (esp.
over ICQ and AIM), and thus a spell checker would be infinitely useful
in that case. I mean, if it really bothers you if a spell checker is
installed, you could always turn it off (or even better - leave it off
by default and allow users to turn it on).
/andrew
</delurk>
