As for grammar checking, that screenshot was kind of weak (no offense to anybody-I mean, it has some silly sentences and words underlined in green), what I do think might be useful though is a grammar checking column in the bottom comparison of word processors table. Can you imagine if every wikipedia page about a piece of software tried to summarize the version history for that software? I guess you could copy and paste the open office version table here, but I think a link to the project version history would be better for those interested (it will be more accurate). Was AbiWord the first F/OSS word processor with a grammar checker? - Karnesky 03:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC) Reply I think version history isn't really relevant, even on the OpenOffice site. I think that the grammar checking is quite relevant & warrants more than a mere bullet point, though. I think the version history could potentially be useful & would propose a table, as in #History. The languages it supports are numerous enough that it isn't worth mentioning.
Chris Pickett 03:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC) Reply I think it is cleaner after your edits. All said, I think I made it more WP:NPOV. Also gone is a link to a Slashdot news article about Abiword beating OpenOffice to a grammar checker. The grammar checking screenshot is gone, that sort of thing belongs on a project page. I merged the salient bits of information from the languages section and the version history into a Features section. BeOS just isn't all that notable in the history of abiword, it is just another platform they used to support. As it stands BeOS is a platform that only had a small market share and the Abiword port was behind the other platforms (far as I remember even QNX was better maintained) and the BeOS version was long ago declared dead and no longer to be maintained. Abiword from the beginning was cross platform and the Sourcegear developers were aware enough of the market to always have Windows as a target platform. Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.52.149.70 ( talk) 18:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC) Reply There is simply no way it was every only developed on Beos, you must be thinking of Gobe Productive Suite or something else. It was only later when that business was clearly failing that they ported to Linux, and started looking at targeting appliances, and when even that failed the source was opened. I was using BeOS in the late 90s, on Intel, and unless I very much misremember, at that time Abiword was only developed on and targetted at BeOS.
I'm surprised not to see more mention of BeOS in the history section, which appears to start with the Linux port and the opensourcing of the code.
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