We have just released a complete rewrite of our browser add-on for Chrome. Unlike the old add-on, which shows errors in a pop-up, the new add-on can underline errors directly in your text:
We will roll-out the new add-on slowly, so you might not automatically get the update for quite some time. If you want to get the update now, uninstall the add-on and re-install the new one from the Google web store.
So Iāve installed the extension but it does not work for me. āCheck Grammar and spelling on this siteā is on, my language is English and I tried it on two fields: textarea (W3Schools Tryit Editor) and tinymce. I have a friend that reported the same problem.
Iāve tried to uninstall and install again but that didnāt help.
I would appreciate any help on this.
I use latest version of Chrome.
That page uses spellcheck=false and the add-on currently accepts that and doesnāt appear. Weāll add a better UI for that soon, so the user understands the issue or can overwrite the page setting.
Maybe I misunderstood you: when you said it doesnāt work, didnāt it work for you at all, i.e. didnāt you even see the underlines for errors? Have you tested in the source code view on the left or the rendered HTML on the right?
So Iāve tried it quickly on two pages and both of them didnāt show any signs of LT in the text fields. So I checked button at the top and checked context menu but found nothing to perform the check.
I must say on pages that it works on everything is cool, I see pretty visible indicator and results (although I would go for different color for grammar errors, itās a bit too subtle now - but thatās my personal preference).
If we add some indication for cases when checking is off that would be very helpful.
Otherwise, looks great, thanks for the upgrade!
P.S. just noted one thing - it checks Ukrainian wikipedia page properly but language stays English, if I switch to Ukrainian it again checks properly but after check is done resets back to English.
Are the pages you tested public, so I can try them? Also, if your add-on version is not 2.0.3, please uninstall and re-install to get the update. In the future, updates will be automatic again.
The add-on is auto-detecting the language on every sentence, isnāt it?
Thatās fine, but there are some undesired results. I donāt know how frequent they are. For example, the Catalan short sentence āUns quants exemples.ā is analyzed as Portuguese (with two spelling errors!).
Please let me know what version you have. If itās < 2.0.4, please uninstall and reinstall. You should get 2.0.4 then, where this issue is supposed to be fixed. If itās not, please let me know.
Thatās on purpose for now to avoid the issue you had with 2.0.2. Iām not sure yet how to get the best of both worlds. Maybe just use per-paragraph language detection if the paragraph exceeds a certain length so the detection becomes very reliable?
Iāve tried new Chrome addon (2.0.4) on comment field in Facebook for Ukrainian and for some reason only grammar errors are highlighted, spelling errors are ignored.
E.g. for āŠŠµŃŃ ŃŠ°Š¼ ŠæŃŃŠ¹ŃŠ¾Š² Š¼Š°ŃŠµŃŃŃŠ».ā only 4th word is highlighted (alternative spelling), 3rd one should be caught by speller module.
At the moment I only tried it in Catalan language, it looks fine and works better. I understand that in short sentences it confuses language but its not big a problem for me.
My version is 2.0.2
Good job Daniel.
Now I just installed 2.0.4 version and tried the short sentence āuns quants exemplesā and is analyzed as Portuguese. Tried āAra poso uns quants exemplesā and is analyzed as French. Finally, I write āCatalan: Ara poso uns quant exemplesā and checks OK in Catalan.
New plugin is awesome! However, there are two problems:
It conflicts with Grammarly plugin. So I opted out to turn LT plugin off, in general Grammarly detects more problems in English. It would be nice if they could work simultaneously. Note that Grammarly plugin has more that 10M of users, while for LT it is just 140k. However, LT is the best available choice for my native language for in-browser writing.
