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More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« on: June 12, 2006, 06:26:34 PM »
This page has an error for me in the upper left corner (it says include("sidebar/rightsideba
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/book.php?id=2&section=10

There are also things on that page Brandon might want to add content for (release date, etc.)
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2006, 06:28:58 PM »
Thanks, I'll look into that.

As for the info, that's EUOL's deparment.
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2006, 07:23:21 PM »
Never did figure out how to edit those little book boxes, Sprig.  Is there a way to do it?
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2006, 07:36:20 PM »
thought there was.  Maybe I didn't include it.  I know there's a space in the Database for them.  I don't see a place for them either so I'll look into it more after work.

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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2006, 12:59:31 AM »
There is an error on the "Harmonical" blog entry, http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog.php?date=1150873200
http://www.devilducky.com/media/10119/ needs to have a closing " after it in the source.
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2006, 04:31:28 AM »
Got it.  Thanks.
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2006, 09:49:33 PM »
In the Deleted Scenes section, I'm seeing a lot of garbage characters for curly quotes. I can't get them to go away by using any of the character encoding options. (This is IE on Windows 2000.)

I'm seeing text like this:

?I?m not convinced it was Domi?s will that took him away from us, uncle,? Sarene said over her wine. ?I?m growing increasingly convinced that it wasn?t His actions so much as someone elses.?
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2006, 12:52:28 AM »
Sigh.  
Fixed now.  There is funkyness with IE and smart quotes.  I didn't notice since I was on firefox.

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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2006, 06:36:42 PM »
The new deleted scene has curly quotes showing up as ?s.
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2006, 06:45:13 PM »
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Sigh.  
Fixed now.  There is funkyness with IE and smart quotes.  I didn't notice since I was on firefox.

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Smart quotes suck and should be removed via find and replace before posting.
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2006, 07:38:10 PM »
Dang!  Forgot that. Why is it that these browsers all have so much trouble with smart quotes?
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2006, 07:43:29 PM »
Okay, fixed.  Thanks for the heads up, Ookla.  The problem is, Firefox can read them--and that's what I use--so I have trouble remembering that I need to do this because when I check the page, it looks okay.  

Sprig--I think that the browsers, actually, suck for not reading them right.  IE particularly.  I mean, if Word is going to stick them in automatically, you'd think that the MS browser would read them correctly.  
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2006, 07:45:52 PM »
Smart quotes are misnamed. They are, in fact, quite stupid.

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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2006, 08:22:27 PM »
Like most things having to do with Office (though to be fair thats mostly witht the earlier versions, they have smartened up a bit now).
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Re: More for BrandonSanderson.com downtime thread
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2006, 01:59:14 PM »
I like smart quotes--the problem here is really with text encodings, which are quite stupid as it took entirely too long for everyone to settle on Unicode.

The only real issue I have with smart quotes is that when you have an abbreviation like 'em (for "them"), smart quotes by default make the apostrophe point the wrong way, as if it were a left single quote.
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