by Dietrich Schmitz
You know, I thought years ago when I was using WordPerfect 4.2 for DOS in the early 1980's, how great that we can have our documents scanned for spelling errors and correct them from a computer dictionary. Marvelous technology then and now ever so common place, pretty much part of the landscape everywhere you go. Today, we accept as the standard that, even your browser, will dynamically highlight spelling errors. (Image right credit: Wikipedia.org)
Still, one must manually take corrective action for those words with a squiggly red underline. Sometimes, I forget and they go unnoticed until after I publish a story--which is embarrassing, and I quickly go in and correct them hoping they won't be seen.
Now, even better, Google Chrome 26 will automatically correct spelling errors.
How cool is that? Very, I'd say.
So, type into your Google Chrome omnibar this url: chrome://flags
Then, per the depiction above, scroll down a bit to find Automatic Spelling Correction, click on the 'Enable' link, then at the bottom extent of your browser's canvas press the 'Relaunch Now' button to restart your browser and have fun watching Chrome correct your silly absent-minded typos, on the fly.
Consider yourself properly corrected.
-- Dietrich
Still, one must manually take corrective action for those words with a squiggly red underline. Sometimes, I forget and they go unnoticed until after I publish a story--which is embarrassing, and I quickly go in and correct them hoping they won't be seen.
Now, even better, Google Chrome 26 will automatically correct spelling errors.
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| Go to url chrome://flags to enable Chrome's new Automatic Spelling Correction feature |
How cool is that? Very, I'd say.
So, type into your Google Chrome omnibar this url: chrome://flags
Then, per the depiction above, scroll down a bit to find Automatic Spelling Correction, click on the 'Enable' link, then at the bottom extent of your browser's canvas press the 'Relaunch Now' button to restart your browser and have fun watching Chrome correct your silly absent-minded typos, on the fly.
Consider yourself properly corrected.
-- Dietrich
