Quirk on DU4 but can not resolve...

[EarlG]

1. This is a sign of the times I'm afraid

The old DU spell checker is an ancient piece of code, which is one of the only pieces of third-party code left over from very early versions of DU. When we were creating the DU4 post pages, we were able to get it working on desktop versions of the site but we simply could not get it to behave on mobile. We would have needed to do significant re-writing of code that we didn't write in the first place, in a language that neither of use are experts in.

So we decided that since modern smartphones all have spell checkers built in, we would just leave the old DU spell checker out of the mobile version. I'm sorry about that, but hopefully it makes sense to know that there's a reason behind it and it's not just an oversight.