With the avatar images now showing on the top left of all posts (I view on a

[EarlG]

2. It seems to me that

adding the avatars back in has not added a significant amount of space to the left side of the screen. As I look at it on my iPad it appears readable to me, unless there's some other issue I'm not seeing. I think we're going to leave it this way for now.

The spell checker on DU only works on desktop layouts because it is ancient and couldn't be reworked successfully into other layouts. However, all modern browsers have built-in spell checkers -- you should see misspelled words highlighted in some way as you type.