Laziness and ignorance on the part of web developers, combined with overly complicated, esoteric rules about how browsers choose the character set, and a lot of legacy tools that don't work properly.
Buffy: Synchronized slaying. Faith: New Olympic category?
'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Apr 01, 2010 2:11:02 pm PDT #20352 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
Ginger - Apr 01, 2010 2:15:10 pm PDT #20353 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
This is about my speed for April Fool's. From today's e-mail:
May is National Historic Preservation Month. The Georgia Trust and Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia DNR (HPD) present the Georgia Preservation Month Lecture Series, where speakers will focus on the benefits of going green. Guest speakers include Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, the Incredible Hulk, and Gumby. Special appearances will be made by Shrek and the Jolly Green Giant, who will discuss how they have made being green into successful careers.
Also, Book View Cafe [link] is featuring its zombie authors.
bon bon - Apr 01, 2010 2:19:28 pm PDT #20354 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Well, I almost always use chrome. I see lots semicolons, dashes and quotes that aren't rendered correctly on different sites but the only site I consistently remember is the "print this" page on NYMag, i.e.: [link]
P.M. Marc - Apr 01, 2010 2:20:21 pm PDT #20355 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
combined with overly complicated, esoteric rules about how browsers choose the character set
About EVERYTHING to do with your browser.
For that matter.
Boy howdy.
DavidS - Apr 01, 2010 2:20:28 pm PDT #20356 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
People who are not my fb friends, or missed it. Hubby is Bartender of the Month
Fuckyeah!
Get healed up, ita.
Emmett's writing about Jimmy Carter, sprawled on his belly in his baseball uni. He's got to wrap it up so we can get to practice and I can take his stuff to a cafe and type it up.
Tom Scola - Apr 01, 2010 2:25:32 pm PDT #20357 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
If people would just use UTF-8 everywhere, it wouldn’t be a problem. But for a place with a workflow like the NYT, there are probably at least a dozen places where the character encoding could possibly get screwed up along the line.
bon bon - Apr 01, 2010 2:28:14 pm PDT #20358 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
If people would just use UTF-8 everywhere, it wouldn’t be a problem.
This is the thinking that is the problem, right? Someone who is composing a blog comment in Word doesn't know what UTF-8 is. But the six or seven browsers, you would think, could recognize smart quotes.
ETA: I don't compose things in Word, just tired of seeing code for nonbreaking space and whatnot.
Atropa - Apr 01, 2010 2:43:50 pm PDT #20359 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Okay, someone explain this drink to me. It sounds great, right up until the inclusion of the black olive. Smirnoff vampire gimlet
(Hec, I'm especially looking at you on this one.)
megan walker - Apr 01, 2010 2:44:02 pm PDT #20360 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Speaking of which -- why in 2010 can't all browsers render all punctuation marks at all times?
Try having everything you do use accents. Nightmare!
Lee - Apr 01, 2010 2:48:53 pm PDT #20361 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
It sounds great, right up until the inclusion of the black olive. Smirnoff vampire gimlet
They lost me at the sugar.