Web Standards – Quotations

I’ve just gone through the entire site and found all the hard-coded “” and replaced them with either the <blockquote> markup or with the inline quotation markup <q> It was quite an effort, but I am happier knowing that my code is further along in following the standards laid down by W3C.

What’s next? Well, replacing all the apostrophies with &#8217; to make them a proper typographical curly quote instead of a single prime mark as discussed in The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters) over at A List Apart. In fact I’ve already used two in this very post. Go me!

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    Interestingly, something seems to have broken on an upgrade to version 3 of WordPress from version 2. All instances of this:nu2019nhave been replaced with this:nu00e2u20acu2122nnAnd so begins and blooming great big clean up exercise. Grrr.