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Excerpt: Microsoft applications have this nasty habit of exchanging both your single and double quotes with "smarter" versions.  They curve inwards and look really snazzy in Microsoft Word.  When you cut and paste them, they're unencoded, as Windows assumes that everyone is using windows-1252 or something.  Unfortunately, that's pretty annoying if you're not using a Windows character set.  So you may want to alter them using the regular expressions that follow. ROTD stands for "regex of the day," in case you're wondering.  And I was going for clarity here — not efficiency, so don't point out that this could be written…

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Excerpt: I find it very annoying when I click on a link that references an internal part of a document, and I fail to see what I was trying to get by clicking it.  It happens the most when a webmaster puts an anchor name near the bottom of the document.  A browser "tries" to scroll such that the referenced content is located at the top of the page, but this is not possible when there is no more page to scroll.  Even if it does manage to do so, it is still helpful to highlight it somehow after the move…