 | | LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Todd Lehman
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| | | Dear LEGO Direct: Please view the following webpage on a Linux system and on a Mac running a non-Microsoft browser: (URL) that page, you will see is a passage of text which goes like this: We need LEGO parent’s help. Note that the text is displayed (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) Well, that's embarrassing... I meant for there to be a four-item list there. On top of that, I said your page was using character #147, but the correct number is #146. In any case, here's some more background, and a table of the characters I (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Jeff Shiner
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| | | | | (...) Ummm... Todd... I don't think that Lego is allowed to do that anymore :-) - Jeff (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Dan Jezek
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| | | | | (...) I concur with Todd's view that quality is utmost importance as stated in the Lugnet plan: (URL) quote "the quality of an online experience can make or break someone's day. ", who knows how many people's day the above mistake ruined? Here is a (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Wow, that thing sure is picky! Very nice!! It's the best, most anal HTML validator I've ever seen! I think it's my new favorite.[1] I ran it on (URL) and it balked at this link: <A HREF="/spotlight.cgi...=fuzzy">Mo ... ^ Error: general entity (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Dan Jezek
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| | | | | | (...) I see you added: TYPE="application/x-javascript" However now when trying to search either news or Partsref using IE5.0, I get the following error: A Runtime Error has occured. Do you wish to Debug? Line: 14 Error: Object Expected When (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Microsoft sucks!!! IE5 *crashed* from that?! (...) LOL! OK, maybe I'll unfix it. It was working fine, even though the validator balked. --Todd (23 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Dan Jezek
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| | | | | | (...) Oh no, it didn't crash. It was just popping the error and then everything went as usual. Thanks for unfixing it, now it works fine. :^) (...) Ah, the validator ;^) I don't like the W3C validator. To pass it means eliminating tags like (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | Anyway, the spostrophe should come after the s: We need LEGO parents' help. not: We need LEGO parent's help. in order to refer to something belonging to parents in the plural. Jason J Railton. (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) This is correct grammar but looks wrong to some people. RWRATP (1) thusly: We need the help of LEGO(r) parents. 1 - Real Writers Rewrite Around The Problem (2) 2 - from IBMTEXT NITPICK FORUM ++Lar (23 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | | Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) Hmmm... does this not imply parents made from Lego? My daughter might describe me thus, but it's not really true. Not really.... Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego (...) (23 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | | | (...) Ah, but not for much longer. It's all down to education, and thanks to your new president you'll soon have 'the best educated Americans in the world'. I'm not sure what "LEGO parents" are anyway. I suppose that if you can make up phrases like (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish.html)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Looks like someone there is on the ball and fixed it! Yay!!! --Todd (23 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish.html)
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