html typos
Typos have always stuck out at me like a sore thumb, but this morning I found my first html typo. I was reading through app advice and noticed html in lieu of an apostrophe. Smiling, I thought, “that’s a big ut-oh”, but immediately my curiosity was piqued when I noticed an apostrophe properly displayed two lines down.
You can see what I’m referring to in this screen shot
That’s when I viewed the source to see what was causing the difference and you can see the screen shot of that as well
& is the html code for an apostrophe and that’s what was placed in front of the first #8217;
In the second line where the apostrophe was displayed properly, the html was ’
I’m guessing the person is so used to keying amp; after & that their fingers were on auto pilot. It happens.
2 Comments
Elaine-
August 3, 2012i used to be a computer programmer, i was top of my class and only once did i write code that wasn’t perfect, and it was a typo of a person’s name in a data field… i was so chumped… mostly coz it was on an exam and i got 99% instead of 100%… now when the only thing i do is a bit of web coding i just cut and paste code so that i don’t have to worry about stuff like that, coz my brain has definitely gone downhill since i was young lol and i do type fast without thinking, and am often very embarrassed at what i ‘immortalize’ on facebook lol read twice, hit ‘submit’ once :)
Andrew Graeme Gould
August 9, 2012Very interesting for me as an “outsider”. I still can’t even begin to conceive of that stuff…