Avi, a reader of this blog, found a great way to illustrate the enhanced spell checking feature from Chrome 26. Just type this short text:
“Is tehre a solution to tehre problem for when tehre traveling?”
I’ve compared Chrome 25 and Chrome 26. The difference is striking: Chrome 25 shows the same suggestions for the 3 spelling errors (“there”, “ether”, “three”, “Tehran”), while Chrome 26 shows different suggestions for each mistake.
Here’s the contextual menu from Chrome 25:
… and here are the suggestions from Chrome 26:
The most interesting thing is that Chrome shows the same suggestions even if you disable “ask Google for suggestions”, so they’re generated locally (only the errors with a green underline are detected by the web service). Obviously, the web service is useful in other cases, but it’s surprising to see that Chrome’s context-sensitive spell checking works offline, even if only in a limited way.