While most of the attention has been on the 1.5 version of Firefox going beta, there’s also a Thunderbird 1.5 beta out. Built-in spell-check, automated software update, integrated server-side spam filtering, and improved UI.
I just hope that it does spam-checking during download, rather than the current method, which waits until you open a folder to do spam-checking on it.
Won’t be downloading the beta, but waiting for the release.
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I don’t know what’s wrong with me… I might be a closet Communist or something but I hate spellcheck almost as much as I hate grammar check.
Why does everybody get so excited over a feature that blithely approves wrong words? That interrupts your train of thought to disapprove of technical terms and unusual place names? That intrudes on writing to fuss over a mismatch with a misbegotten database?
Is it because of humiliating spelling bees in childhood? Deep-seated fear of imperfection? Just about the time an application is nearly perfect someone will say; “But when will it have spellcheck?”
Sorry, pet peeve. I know lots of intelligent people who can’t spell worth a damn. The day I need a machine to give me advice on what to say and how to say it, push my remains into the hole and start throwing in dirt.
Spell-check is not a be-all end-all for me. It’s a useful tool when I feel the need for that precision, but it’s not something I ordinarily use (having pretty good spelling all by my lonesome).