Hmm, odd as SCAYT is 'supposed' to be be a plugin for the CK Editor, which I had assumed by the skin, was what was being used for this forum (we use this as an editor for our webmail) however, it does not seem to support all of the natural functionalilty of the CK Editor – hardly surprising considering the way in which MHS seem to bastardise everything associated with this forum!!!!!!!

No, you didn't imagine it, Ian. The way the editor was configured, it suppressed the (built-in or add-on) spell-checker in your browser. You had to use SCAYT or nothing. Katy has changed it so that your browser spell-checker is not longer suppressed.

By default most (all?) browser spell checkers underline or otherwise highlight spelling errors and you right-click on them to choose what course of action you want. That right click conflicts with something in the editor so you have to use ctrl-right-click instead.

Sorry for the confusion, this has not really been tested as thoroughly as I would like, but was enabled as a result of the 'new look' thread, so implementation has been a little haphazard.

The upshot is, you should now have access to your preferred browser spell check, rather than the editor's inbuilt SCAYT, if you wish to use it..

This means that on typing in the editor box here

1. Any typing errors/unknown words will be underlined in red with a wavy line regardless of whether or not you have enabled the in editor SCAYT, using your browser native spell check system, if it has one.
2. To correct any of these potentially misspelt words, you will need to use Ctrl and right click to choose a correct spelling from the suggested list (at the top of the menu) . If you only right click, rather than Ctrl right click, you will bring up a menu from the editor which doesn't include spell check, which offers paste etc and may confuse you.
3. This should help those of you that currently have common ME specific English words added to your own browser spell check

If you don't use a browser spell check, but would like to spell check your posts using the inbuilt spell checker do the following instead. This is the default behaviour from last week, before the layout change.

1. Type your post as normal
2. Click the 'ABC' button on the text editor toolbar and 'Enable SCAYT'
3. Right click on any misspelled words to correct. Some suggested words may not be appropriate as this dictionary will be less conversant with ME terms than one you've added to yourself;

I have default Firefox 24.0, with no language plugins and my language is set to English Language (UK), color is corrected to colour for me with no problems

Hmm. FF 24.0 here (18 is stone age!), but I can't see where to change the language. I installed teh plugin several versions ago, but it appears never to have worked.

Neil

In the old days, it would be stone age. Back when Mozilla used to roll out well-tested new version every 6 months to a year. Not these days though when they push out the stuff every few weeks trying to keep up with Chrome and then fix, fix, fix for the bugs.

I keep an eye on mozilla.support.firefox and when (if ) 24 looks reasonably stable I may update

This may help with the spell checker.