Comments on: Dynamic Curly Quotes

By: Daniel Gotilla

Daniel Gotilla — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The block of code you�ve posted includes two alert() functions which are not needed (and indeed not included in global.js) you might want to remove.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Daniel, thanks. The alert statements were used for debugging and, of course, were yanked from the final revision of the code. I pulled them here, too.

By: altp

altp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This raises the question of “do we care about netscape 4.x?”

unfortunately, for many of us that develop web-based-software for work, the answer is “yes”

many, MANY, people still use netscape 4.x because it is what they know. They find that things “look funny” in netscape 6 and 7, and won’t give or don’t know about mozilla. This same crowd typically seems to hate MS-IE and won’t use it either.

Ironically, i’ve noticed that 90% (yes, i keep track ) of the netscape 4.x crowd comes from the engineering sector of campus. You’d think they’d be able to handle using a modern browser … or perhaps, because their profession is so old they know the value of “tried and true”

What ever the reason, it is a real thorn in my side sometimes.

Altp.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Mike. Yeah, I had covered this in a previous blog, when I decided to start supporting NN4 to a limited extent. My attitude is much like the attitude at A List Apart, which is: “we’ll make our site accessible to you, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll make it attractive to you.” I’ll probably get around to fixing the quotes bug in Netscape, but—since no one visits this site using Netscape 4—it certainly won’t happen anytime before school’s over.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking of “alternative” browsers, I’m happy to report that this site renders beautifully from Safari running on a 17″ iMac. The bad news is that the quotes fix doesn’t work in Safari. =^P

By: altp

altp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, maybe a safari user will report it to apple then … they seem to be big on making the world most perfect browser …

it may even be enought o make me switch to konquer on linux instead of gecko … that is, if anyone makes a decent interface

Altp.

By: Daniel Staal

Daniel Staal — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Quick note on Safari: it appears to work now. (Version 1.0, build 85)

By: jeroen schellekens

jeroen schellekens — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

all good and well, but safari misses at least one major object, that’s the DOM getComputedStyle / IE currentStyle one… so it’s rather not the perfect browser yet (and i didn’t mention the limited form / input field layout possibilities yet).

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I should mention that this entry has been superceded by this:

http://www.kennsarah.net/archives/000251.shtml

Since May 9th, Brad Choate’s MT Macros plugin automatically appends the curly quotes on this site.

By: Far�

Far� — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hum. Since you then changed the way things are done on your site, can you post the latest version that worked?