146755 - Spell Checker Does Not Work

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Vladimir]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

Hi.

   In RC3 any available version of the Mozilla spellchecker project
does not work. It worked with RC1 and RC2 though. The same is true
for almost any night build.

It is very irritating. I am planning on switching to Mozilla and this
component obviously is very important. If it is going to be broken
with every new (big or small) Mozilla release it makes this usage
almost impossible.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above
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Comment 1

[sujay]

brade/akkana, spellchecking is not in Mozilla I thought. but this user
claims he saw it working in prior versions of mozilla.

Comment 2

[Vladimir]

Correct. It is a separate project and it is working by itself.
The problem is almost any new release makes the connection (call or whatever)
broken.
Do serach on the word "spell" in the Mozilla help.
Then navigate using the link the search brought.
You will see several versions of this spellchecker.
Among them one which works with RC1 and RC2.
There are several others as well.
NONE of them works with RC3 and subsequent night builds,
After installation and restart on the startup Mozilla
complains about DLLs.

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Since the point of Mozilla 1.0 is frozen, stable interfaces, many have been
cleaned up and changed to something we can live with for a long time. This
breaks any component relying on those interfaces. It's unfortunate, but this was
discussed for a long time and the decision was made that it's better to break
lots of people now who can then come out with a "1.0-compatible" version rather
than dribble the breakage out randomly over time and interfaces here and there
change.

Several of the MozDev projects are temporarily broken as a result, but it's up
to them to recompile their code against the 1.0 headers. It's not something we
can fix on the Mozilla end.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Let me also direct you to http://bugzilla.mozdev.org to file bugs against the
spelling checker or other MozDev projects.

Comment 5

[Vladimir]

I think that this is a Mozilla bug.
The SAME version of this spellchecker works fine with RC1 an RC2.
According to RC status we have only bugs fixing without adding
any new functionality. So, it means (more likely) that it is
a build problem, I guess.

Comment 6

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

The interfaces were changed on purpose -- that was the point of having an rc3.
It's not a build problem.

Comment 7

[Kathleen :Brade]

the "bug" is that the api changed and so the previous spellchecker won't work
anymore (it can't link in).  The api probably won't change back.  The fix is for
the spellchecker to use the new api.

verifying

Comment 8

[Vladimir]

Additional Comment #4
=====================
I tried to use the indicated link but it is broken:
http://bugzilla.mozdev.org

Comment 9

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Ok, so they've taken down the site-wide entry point. Each MozDev project has a
BUGS link, use it.

Comment 10

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign in case bugs are later reopened