Crissa

Q: Why does Mac OS spelling correction not work in the communities editor?

Why does my context menu spelling correction work inconsistently in the communities editor?

 

The editor seems weirdly slow in Safari 10 and when a misspell a word it wasn't letting me correct it.

 

...Weirdly the editor allows me to do it this time, but the font seems slightly different.

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 11", mid 2013, i7 1.7, 8GB RAM

Posted on Sep 21, 2016 11:23 AM

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Q: Why does Mac OS spelling correction not work in the communities editor?

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  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Sep 21, 2016 11:54 AM in response to Crissa
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    Sep 21, 2016 11:54 AM in response to Crissa

    My Mac's display is broken so I cannot test under (near) your conditions...

    I do not experience speelling dictionary problems in Firefox on my borrowed Dell/Win10 laptop

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    That said, everything that you experience on a thread page is happening pretty much "client-side" computing - that is, a BUNCH of scripts and such load up while the page loads, and everything thereafter happens on your Mac

    IF this happens intermittently as you are apparently describing, it could mean that the "line of communication" between the source (Apple) and you is only working intermittently

    OR

    There really is some intermittent problem with your installed dictionary (weird, but possible I suppose)

     

    Troubleshooting?

    • Same as with any other issue - restart your Mac - which will of course restart Safari = test
    • Restart & test in Safe Mode > OS X Yosemite: Start up in safe mode
    • Restart in normal mode = test
    • Test in another browser such as Firefox, Opera or Chrome