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Minor crimes against literacy
Sep. 14th, 2006 12:03 ameBay, understandably, does not want people to be able to implant nasties, Javascript or otherwise, in messages sent between their users.
One of the ways they do this is by preventing the use of HTML, asterisks or quotes in the messages.
By which they mean, ASCII characters 0x22 and 0x27 are forbidden.
This means that one is obliged to write in the manner of a rather stilted Victorian, the apostrophe being disallowed. And apostrophes are surprisingly hard to see among text; I had to read the message I was sending three or four times to get in the full quota of it has, I am, you are.
One of the ways they do this is by preventing the use of HTML, asterisks or quotes in the messages.
By which they mean, ASCII characters 0x22 and 0x27 are forbidden.
This means that one is obliged to write in the manner of a rather stilted Victorian, the apostrophe being disallowed. And apostrophes are surprisingly hard to see among text; I had to read the message I was sending three or four times to get in the full quota of it has, I am, you are.
