I am trying to get comfortable with the new version of the forum and have two comments to make regarding the new message pop-up window.

1) It seems to take a bit of time after the window opens before I can type anything in it. I'm not sure if this is because my internet access is through a proxy server, but I did not have this problem with the previous version.

2) Since the pop-up window is opened without any tool bars, I cannot run the Google spell-checker on my mesage (sic).

The speed problem only seems to be in Firefox. I've noticed this with other pop-up windows in Firefox.

Hi Francis -- Unfortuantely spell check is not an option with this release...I'm going to submit a new feature request and perhaps it could be incorporated in the message board's future release.

Maryellen