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Fri
21
Jul '06

ROTD: Replacing "Smart" Quotes with "Dumb" Quotes

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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 wind ...
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Wed
12
Jul '06

Automatically Highlighting Internal Links

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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 t ...
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