[wp-hackers] Putting the P in WordPress

[Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz]

Just a thought, if you enter: iphone, or macbook into an iPhone, it will
correct it to its proper name.

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Demetris <kikizas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Andrew Ozz <admin at laptoptips.ca> wrote:
> > I'm still being amazed by how a well meant effort to correct a common
> > spelling mistake can be turned into a .... (insert your favourite
> conspiracy
> > theory here).
> >
> > Grammatically "WordPress" is a name and "Wordpress" is the misspelled
> form
> > of it. And that's in any language. You wouldn't type "Los angeles" or
> "San
> > francisco", would you? Correcting the spelling _does not_ change the
> content
> > or edit your post.
> >
> > And yes, unfortunately there isn't more straightforward way of correcting
> > that spelling. It could be added to the TinyMCE dictionary (would need a
> > fair bit of coding since it uses Google spell by default but can use
> > aspell/pspell on the server too). The problem is that most people usually
> > use the browser's build-in spellchecker and there's no way of adding this
> in
> > there.
> >
> Andrew,
>
> First, no one talks about a conspiracy.
>
> Second, are you saying that WordPress should be correcting commonly
> misspelled camelcased words?  Why stop with WordPress’s own name then?
>  There is much work to be done on that front:
>
> *   DaimlerChrysler
> *   FedEx
> *   iPad
> *   iPhone
> *   iPod
> *   iWhatever
> *   MasterCard
> *   NVIDIA
> *   PlayStation
> *   YouTube
> *   etc. etc.
>
> Then, once we are finished with camelcased words, we can start
> correcting capitalization in acronyms.  The situation there is even
> worse.
>
> These tasks will help us keep sufficiently busy for a few months now
> that WordPress seems to have reached nearly perfect state and does not
> need attention in any other areas.
>
> :-D
>
> Cheers!
>
> Demetris
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