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May 28, 2014 at 9:17 comment added Rob Moir And to me too, because like the majority of people here, we're sensible. But in any large website group there's a minority of idiots that need to be catered to as well. You can already see on any of the stack exchange sites where a group of people are prepared to invest 10 times as much energy into why something should be allowed to remain broken than they are into just fixing it.
May 26, 2014 at 11:05 comment added TRiG I don't see how "do it in text, but not in code" is particularly nuanced, @RobM. Seems fairly straightforward to me.
May 14, 2014 at 16:58 comment added Rob Moir The general consensus among people who care about typography is that curled apostrophes and quotation marks are easier to read and in general I agree with them totally. In the specific case of websites that display technical content that can be badly affected by someone 'correcting' quotation marks, etc. I think there's an adequate case for just say no because that's easier to enforce than anything more complex and nuanced.
May 13, 2014 at 12:22 comment added user9517 Perception is the only reality.
May 13, 2014 at 12:21 comment added TRiG That may depend on your font settings, @Iain. The general consensus among people who care about typography is that curled apostrophes and quotation marks are easier to read.
May 13, 2014 at 12:16 comment added user9517 I dispute your it makes a post easier to read. Without peering at the edited text quite hard it's difficult to tell the difference. If when reading the text normally a difference isn't perceived then the two texts are the same so your statement cannot be true.
May 13, 2014 at 9:42 comment added TRiG I tend to feel the same about removing signatures, actually. To my mind, that’s also worth doing only if you’re also doing something else. I think that used to be Jeff Atwood’s policy too, but he later changed his mind and decided that signature removal was valid on its own. I think.
May 13, 2014 at 9:41 history answered TRiG CC BY-SA 3.0