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I've mentioned before an idea I had about getting the smartest and brightest (yeah, that means you lot) to come up with solutions to day to day issues we have that will, ultimately, save the community as a whole some time and pain.
A challenge I'm facing at the moment is in correcting grammar and punctuation.
Many, many, MANY times I see questions or articles that have things like "i then did" or "im not sure" or the punishable-by-death "ur mileage may vary". Even Sql instead of SQL and Asp.Net instead of ASP.NET keep popping up.
Is anyone interested in a challenge to write a Javascript library that will auto-correct bad spelling and punctuation? It'll be a formal contest with prizes (and maybe even some better specs).
Yay or nay: any interest?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sounds like it could be fun. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get to this before the middle of September, but this could well be a fun little challenge.
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I thought so too - until I got to the "Javascript" bit... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I'll just write it in Typescript. I've been using it a lot lately, and I like the way it works. It almost makes JavaScript enjoyable.
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"almost"
That's the key word here...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Yeah well, I'm not that much of a masochist 
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: It almost makes JavaScript enjoyable
How can you not love Javascript[^]?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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New feature needed, automatically check urls are valid and point to what you are expecting?
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Does it help you link[^] properly?
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https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wa[^]Quote: The page you were looking for doesn't exist.
You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.
Bad Link!
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Sounds like a clbuttic mistake looking for a place to happen.
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I am sure you checked out before, but: you should not be the first one to tackle this. Before we reinvent the wheel, is there really nothing out there in the wild interweb that already does the job ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I have checked. There's stuff that's close.
But not as fun as making it perfect ourselves and having an excuse to throw some prizes out... 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ah, so you're trying to kill a few more kittens. Carry on.
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I'd be interested in using it, that's for certain.
Jeremy Falcon
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Why JavaScript? This sort of stuff should be happening on the server(s) right?
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Speed: you want it to happen in the client so it's fast (and doesn't stress the servers). Think of the annoying "pauses" you sometimes get when pasting code into a CP textbox, and imagine typing with that going on... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Hey, you know what we should do?...make a CSharpScript browser plugin to run it 'sorry, no spelling check unless you install the CSharpScript plugin' 
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Trouble is there would have to be at least three of 'em: Chrome, Firefox and Opera.
Maybe an IE6 one for the companies that won't let people use a "proper" browser?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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We'll just do one for IE and open source it...the rest can add it if they want...IE's market share will go up and they will all get in line
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Of course, CP could be moving towards Node.JS - that would be really good 
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I always thought that's what the grammar pedants were here for. Now the OPs can get abuse direct from the website. 
Kidding aside, it sounds like a worthy cause, however, will the spelling and grammar correction improve the content or the amount of effort put into a posting or article? Your fuel efficiency may fluctuate under different usage conditions.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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...hope it includes an 'off' switch...some of my misspellings are kinda my way of expressing myself, ya know?
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Definitely
cheers
Chris Maunder
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<FlagellatingTheExpiredEquine>
The must be an off switch, and it must stay off. Spelling checkers are an abomination, and grammar checkers are worse. For every case where they find I've made an error, they come up with 100's of false positives to annoy me. While the grammar checker in Microsoft Word (for example) can be tailored, it takes too much work for far too little result. Bitch at me about dangling participles (bad habit1) and passive voice (bad habit2), and STFU.
I won't have an impudent piece of sh*t software telling me how to express myself.
</FlagellatingTheExpiredEquine>
Software Zen: delete this;
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