Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Mar 2009 23:47 UTC
Mac OS X Thanks to Ars Technica, we've got some Snow Leopard goodness for you. As always, Apple is quite secretive about its upcoming operating system, so even though test builds are released every now and then, information is scarce. An Ars reader has given some more insights into the latest Snow Leopard build, released on Friday.
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RE[2]: Text Features
by Morph on Sun 8th Mar 2009 12:34 UTC in reply to "RE: Text Features"
Morph
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2007-08-20

Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of having system-wide spell checking etc, if it works differently on every app because of app-specific custom dictionaries?

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RE[3]: Text Features
by dagw on Sun 8th Mar 2009 21:19 in reply to "RE[2]: Text Features"
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2005-07-06

Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of having system-wide spell checking etc, if it works differently on every app because of app-specific custom dictionaries?

Not really. One example could editing markup like LaTeX or HTML. A built in spell checker that understood and knew that tags weren't spelling mistakes and could warn you if you misspelled common tags could be quite handy. However applying this dictionary to all text you wrote in all apps would be quite pointless.

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