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I just ran across this evil critter...

While typing a response to slolerner, "Torx" showed as underlined, i.e. mis-spelled, despite the fact that it was already present in ~/Library/Spelling/en.

Clicking on command-shift-: called up the appropriate dialog box, and clicking on "Learn" showed (understandably?) no results, but clicking on "Ignore" caused the page on which I was working to reload, as follows (and identically, several times):





Oddly, though, typing "Torx" here did not result in underlining, but when I omitted the "O" from oddly, command-shift-: > Ignore resulted in this "Post" page reloading with absolutely no text, not even in the subject line, and attempting to duplicate that behavior here has resulted in a reload from which only the questioned text has been deleted.

Further, and perhaps related, after playing around with the phenomenon a few times, when I got back to the FTM Forums Index it indicated that I had never looked at a single post, i.e. number of posts equalled number of unread posts, and I had to clear my cookies to clear my screen. (Edit: Hmmm... I haven't been able to recreate that.)

Can anybody verify this or similar failure of spell-check to interact with Safari 5.1 as expected? (I just tested spell-check in TextEdit, and the two interacted as expected.)

For what it is worth if I am understanding your description correctly, I cannot replicate your error in Safari 5.1 on any of the three Macs around here. Oddly enough when your post first displays the last line of both quotes initially have a dark line over them that almost immediately clears from left to right leaving a normal display.

"Torx"

I got the red-line, too, but I did control-click, and had no troubles adding it to the Dictionary. what's with command-shift?

and I also got the strange, brief black lines as Joe did. weird.

It's command-colon that artie's using (command-shift-semi-colon), which invokes Safari's Edit -> Spelling and Grammar -> Show Spelling and Grammar command.

ah, thanks, dk.

Thanks for testing for me.

First, it hadn't occurred to me to try control-click > Ignore, and I've now determined that it works as expected.

Second, the dark line that both you and roger have reported seeing does not appear on my screen. Is it reproducible on your end?

And, finally, this one has got me scratching my head, trying to remember what I may have forgotten...

Since posting, I have

1. logged in to my test user account,
2. turned all my Safari Extensions off, and, with them still turned off,
3. shut down and restarted,
4. repaired permissions,
5. Safe Booted,
6. run "applejack AUTO," and
7. (Edit 3) reinstalled Safari 5.1,

all with no joy.

I guess I'll have to live with control-click unless someone can offer up a coupla other options for me to try.

Edit: On a lark, I just ran DiskWarrior...still no joy.

Edit 2: And on a prayer, I reran the 10.6.8 Combo, and... VOILA!!! (Go figure )

I can reliably reproduce that line by opening and closing another Safari page. When the focus returns to the page with your post the line appears briefly and then disappears. In fact it appears at any time when the focus shifts to that page. As far as I can determine it is only occurs in your one post — at least I have not been unable to reproduce it in other threads.

When I look at the source code for the page some of the HTML generated by UBB Threads 7.5.5 appears to be, if technically acceptable, a bit oddly constructed. That, in conjunction with the code for the "Smilies" and the quote may be the culprit in this case. But that is purely a guess on my part.

Got me beat! I don't see your black lines.

Edit: I'm running Safari 5.0.5 at the moment, but I didn't see the lines when I was running v 5.1 either.

Bitten by the "Ignore" bug again and

1. I reinstalled Safari 5.1...no joy,
2. reinstalled OS X 10.6.8 v 1.1 Combo...OK in Safari 5.0.5,
3. and then reinstalled Safari 5.1(*)...Aaargh! No joy this time around.

I guess it's control-click...if I can remember (and not lose any more posts to this obnoxious insect )!

(*)Seamless, huh?