Re: [css-text] Control characters

> On Jun 30, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> No, you didn't get my point.  My point is that if you write a word on your website and your browser shows it as a word but Google's spider doesn't think it's a word, you will be unhappy.

I think if Google's spider is that broken, then Google should fix it. It does Google no good to avoid recognizing a word because it has an unintentional control character in the middle of it.

> Your website's users will similarly be unhappy when they try and copy/paste the word into their word processor or mail client, and so forth.

The browser already changes copied content as a result of text-transform. I don't see why it wouldn't leave out from copying characters that are known to be mistakes.

> That is to say, there is a tension here between browsers fixing up broken sites for their users and web sites playing nice with the larger text-processing ecosystem that exists in the world,

OK

> and it's possible to actually make things worse for users and authors by covering up issues that would completely break other tools they rely on.

I think it is possible to discard mistakes without breaking other tools.

Received on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 06:40:20 UTC