296106 - Spell checker not available on email composer 'subject' line

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 3459

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[ron flory]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

 While composing an email message or response, the user is not allowed to run
the spell checker on the 'subject' line.  

 I am not sure why this is so.  It would be very nice to catch my stupid
mis-spellings on the subject line, instead of only in the message body.

 I believe this was allowed in older versions of Netscape. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. compose a new message
2. click over 'subject' line
3. notice that 'spell checker' is grayed-out.
4. click over 'message body' area, notice spell checker is not 'grayed-out'.

Actual Results:  
Spell checker is never permitted while on 'subject' line

Expected Results:  
Allow running the spell-checker on the email subject line, it would be nice to
detect/correct dumb typos in the subject line before sending.

Comment 1

[Jim Booth]

Reporter: may I suggest you include "core" in the products when you search for
dupes in the future?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3459 ***