Spell Checking in Blogger

It seems that spell checking in Blogger now works. I had complained about it previously, but am glad that they now have it fixed. Logging in and writing a post is still full of bugs in Opera, but I can manage, though I do hope that they fix it.

One thing that kind of annoyed me is that Blogger thought that "Rensselaer" was misspelled, and didn't offer any logical replacement. On the RPI message boards, there is an entire thread on misspellings of Rensselaer.

An Appreciated New Feature of Blogger

While I am disappointed in the lack of support for the Opera browser by Blogger, I just ran into a feature in the new version that I very much appreciate. It validates my input. It used to be that whatever I typed into the box was exactly what was published, errors and all. With the new version, it will alert the user to well-formedness errors. For example, I just accidentally closed an <abbr> element with "</a>". Blogger alerted me, and I corrected the error before it was published.

Now, if only they would make the spell checker work in Opera, along with everything else that doesn't work.

Blogger not Working with Opera

My goodness! Blogger is not working with Opera. It is really getting on my nerves! I just had to jump through a lot of hoops to get to the page where I can make a post. A significant number of people use Opera because it is a great browser. The least that Google can do is to test their services and make them work in Opera as well as other browsers.

If they had the same problems with Firefox or Internet Explorer, there would be outrage, and they would get a lot of bad publicity. A lot of people use Opera because it is a great browser. It is a huge pain when something like Blogger doesn't work. The old Blogger worked fine with Opera. I don't know what they did that made it break in Opera, but I hope that they fix it soon.