Ratsneve wrote:
However, my concern does not lie here actually. My concern is that if I buy into a new MacBook Pro I will be able to do on-the-fly spell checking where I can if needed add words to a dictionary using Safari and/or Mail. I think I am reading in this thread actually that the answer is 'yes I can'?
The system-wide spell checker built into OS X allows all that & more. But unfortunately, it does not work in the ASC reply editor, at least if you are using the current versions of Safari. This is because of a quirk in the Jive code that sets a spellcheck flag to false in the editor.
There is a workaround for that suggested by one of our more talented users, but it isn't as elegant as one might hope for in that it has to be set for each new reply. (That's not the fault of the user; it's a built-in limitation of the code.)
Anyway, if you want to use it, you need to create a bookmark (like for a web page) & then edit its "address" to the following (all on one line):
javascript:(function(){document.getElementById('wysiwygtext_ifr').contentDocumen t.getElementById('tinymce').setAttribute('spellcheck','true');})();
You can rename the bookmark to whatever you want & put it on the bookmarks bar for easy access. To use it, you click on it after opening the reply editor window. That runs the JavaScript & sets the flag to true.
It is a PITA to have to remember to do this for each reply, but it allows you to use the OS X on-the-fly spell checker, text substitution feature of OS X, & so on.
