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Before you spout off your opinions about the capabilities and credentials of people you don't know, I suggest you tread a bit more cautiously next time. I did not, however, recall requesting a dissertation or an attack from a pompous ass (anyone putting "meister" after his name clearly has some serious ego issues). What I asked for was someone from Firefox to consider figuring out a solution. Get off your high horse and deal in the real world. And just because a web designer may not be an expert in all the intricacies and bugs of a browser does not make him or her a "so-called" professional. I know Firefox is a descendant of Netscape - but Netscape doesn't have this punctuation problem and Firefox does. And there are many NON professionals who are creating their own web pages - that's the reality of the world now and the technology is out there to allow them to do that. I did not say I use Word to create web PAGES, I said I use Word to write up the TEXT that goes into a web site for my clients. I beg YOUR pardon but you made a big assumption and clearly did not read my words. Hope someone from Firefox tech support is reading this and taking the HINT! I can control my own web site but not everyone else's! Since a fair percentage of people do this copy and paste thing from Word, wouldn't it make sense for Firefox to be a bit more forgiving in its ability to translate and display punctuation properly - even if it's not coded exactly right in the first place? If IE can do it, why not Firefox? Let's not be so elitist! It's darned annoying to see all those stupid little diamonds all over the pages I'm reading when I'm surfing the web.
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They don't want to know how it all works.
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Plus, when you consider that a lot of small businesses use Frontpage or other template-based web site design services for "do-it-yourself" web sites, they are not going to know enough to know how to fix "character set encoding" - all they want to do is drop their text into their web pages and get out again. It's standard operating procedure and no one is about to change that. If I am not the one actually loading the web copy into their web pages, I have no control over how they get the copy into their pages, but you can bet they or their web designer are doing a copy/paste straight out of the Word file. I use Word to do this and to deliver the content to the client.
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I'm a professional writer, as well as being a web designer since 1992, and other people hire me to write their web copy. MS Word's character set probably IS different than the HTML standard, but since the majority of the people on the planet use Word to write up and store their documents - including the web page copy they are writing - and they then copy and paste that text into whatever HTML editor they are using. There are millions of existing web pages out there that people have created, properly or improperly, and the reality is that many of these web pages have content that was copied and pasted out of an MS Word file (which is what I believe is creating the problem). It seems to be suggested that it's something to do with improper character encoding, and while that may be the technical explanation, what I want to know is - what's Firefox going to DO about it?īecause realistically speaking, Firefox, while a great browser in other respects, is coming in late in the game. I've seen a few people here post questions about the problem with Firefox not translating punctuation properly in some web pages and as a result, the "offending" punctuation marks look like black diamonds with a white question mark.