Most people aren't aware of the actual downsides of using a spellchecker in shorthand text mediums-- you know, ones where full sentences are not the norm (aka. IRC). I'm bringing this to light.
I disagree. Spell checkers are very prevalent in IM clients, so many people are already familiar with how they would work in such a situation.
And yet, in this reply alone, Chrome has made me question whether I spelled "mimick" correctly (I did, Chrome doesn't have the variant spelling in its dictionary), thereby wasting my time.
Chrome's spell checker was correct. "Mimick" is an archaic spelling, so it is no longer accepted as a correct spelling in modern English. Similarly, from your last post, "spellcheck" as a compound word is not a widely accepted spelling either.
But even ignoring these facts, nothing is stopping you from loading in a custom dictionary or manually adding those words to the internal dictionary so that they will be treated as correct.
This seems more like a cost benefit issue to me.
That is something for Khaled to decide, IMO.
