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Confidence is reduced when the blurbs on the first page are coded with the imaginary HTML entity "'" which does not render as an apostrophe in all browsers. (The fix is just to use a literal apostrophe character there, or if that's hard use "'".)

"TeuxDeux is the to-do app I've been looking for my whole life, and I've been looking!"

"TeuxDeux is like google cal's & google task's better-looking and far more fun sister."



I am confused, ' is valid XHTML. The DOCTYPE seems to suggest this is XHTML.


Yep, all true, but just give the site a spin in IE8 (full standards-conforming mode or compatability mode) or IE7 or earlier--the blemish appears in all of them. It looks bad enough to make it not worth standing on principle, especially when the fix is simply to put in the apostrophe character directly with no need for an entity.


developers shouldn't fix broken browsers.


man, I fucking hate IE.




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