On a site like the HB, spellcheck is important. In some chat forums, it matters, too. This is where a good, learning auto-correct program can really be helpful. But in most casual chatrooms and online games, auto-correct really effs up abbreviations and chat lingo.

So my idea is for a smartphone app that lets you assign a profile to each of your bookmarked websites and all of your online games. A simple ON/OFF toggle for the auto-correct feature in your phone's text programming. Set it, and it stays that way for that site or game until changed manually again.

That is all.
-- 21 Quest, Feb 26 2010

Anything that discourages mental spelling rigour is a bad thing.
-- pocmloc, Feb 26 2010


Not when you're speaking in code during a game for the sake of speed and efficiency, or typing usernames that the spellcheck doesn't recognize, and the auto-correct feature keeps messing it up. Your user name, for instance, is an auto-correct nightmare.
-- 21 Quest, Feb 26 2010


"Did you mean to say 'there' ?"
-- FlyingToaster, Feb 27 2010



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