Comment by nicoburns

I'd love to see better open source spell checking. The state of the art spell checkers (in say, MS Word or Google Search) are excellent and more than good enough for my needs. And yet the spell checkers in browsers (e.g. Chrome and Firefox) and other apps tend to be terrible only catching very basic cases and often not being able to suggest the correct word.

Does anyone have any insight into what's holding this back?