[thelist] Spolsky: things you can't do really well inawebapplication

[Paul Cowan]

On 16/06/2004 10:51 PM +0200 Yoan Talagrand wrote:
> Never saw realtime spell checker but it does not sounds impossible to
> me... Most webmails does post editing spell check. Why couldn't we create
> one live ?

Well, having a totally enormous, comprehensive dictionary downloaded 
client-side would be at least one hurdle...

Paul