re Spell check function

[EarlG]

1. The spell check function is, um, "legacy"

In other words, it's obsolete and we should probably get rid of it, but we decided to keep it because there are still a few people on DU who use it regularly

The spell checker is no longer really necessary because most modern browsers have spell checkers built in (plus auto-correct if you're on mobile).

So when you see those squiggly red lines underneath misspelled words, like this:



-- that's your browser doing the work, it's got nothing to do with DU.

The spell check function is one of the only remaining pieces of code on DU that wasn't written by Elad or myself -- it was a third-party package that I think we might have even had on DU2, which means it could be 20 years old. Unfortunately neither Elad nor I are experts in the language it's written in, so given its "legacy" status we're probably not going to go in and try to mess around with it...