Internet Explorer ' “feature”

This problem has been around for ages, but it is an easy one to overlook. Internet Explorer does not expand the ' entity (part of XHTML 1.0 specifications) since it is an XML entity. So be very careful especially when using an HTML editor and use ' instead.

Here’s an example:

Internet Explorer

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3 Responses to “Internet Explorer ' “feature””

  1. Internet Explorer ' “feature” Says:
    October 17th, 2007 at 3:24 am

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  2. Tim Van Damme Says:
    October 17th, 2007 at 3:50 am

    The rendering of fonts on Windows give me shivers… It hurts when you think how many hours a typedesigner put into a font, only to let it be f*cked up by MS…

    And indeed, using ', ←,… is much easier to remember then ', but so are many CSS-properties we can’t use because of IE.

  3. Sean Dockery Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 1:21 am

    Tim, can you elaborate on which CSS-properties can’t be used because of IE? Are the problems to which are alluding summarized anywhere? Thanks.

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