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Re: LEGO website bug report: Invalid forward apostrophe character
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lugnet.publish.html
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Sun, 14 Jan 2001 08:51:16 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Todd Lehman writes:
> Dear LEGO Direct:
>
> Please view the following webpage on a Linux system and on a Mac running a
> non-Microsoft browser:
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> http://www.lego.com/INmotion/designit.asp
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> On that page, you will see is a passage of text which goes like this:
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> We need LEGO parent’s help.
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> Note that the text is displayed incorrectly on non-Windows systems because
> it contains a Windows-specific character which isn't part of the ISO-8859-1
> standard character set. Here is how it shows up on Netscape for Linux:
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> We need LEGO parent?s help.
I concur with Todd's view that quality is utmost importance as stated in the
Lugnet plan:
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/plan/12.html
To 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 good browser compatibility test that I came across:
http://websitegarage.netscape.com/O=wsg/tuneup_plus/index.html
Does a spell check and a great HTML check among other things.
Here is another, has more critics than the above:
http://validator.w3.org/
impossible to pass unless you only have "hello world" on a page.
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