353582 - Repeated "Couldn't contact Spell Checker." message when editing textarea

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: HTML Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Myke Olson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060917 Camino/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060917 Camino/1.0+

If the AppleSpell service is not running (such as a workaround to bug 353581), after EVERY WORD typed in a textarea box, a dialog is presented: "Alert: Couldn't contact Spell Checker."

If this dialog was displayed once per user-session, that would be much better.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. killall AppleSpell
2. Launch Camino
3. Go to a page and type in a textarea.

Actual Results:  
"Alert: Couldn't contact Spell Checker." after every word

Expected Results:  
nothing

Comment 1

[Myke Olson]

Does not reproduce when spelling disabled --
user_pref("layout.spellcheckDefault", 0);

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

If you start blowing away standard system components, Camino's behavior is not guaranteed. That message isn't even generated by Camino, but by the system itself (or possibly cocoaAspell, based on some quick searching online).