A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 343

Authors: S: Peter K Sheerin

 Peter K Sheerin

Peter K. Sheerin is the Senior Technical Editor for CADENCE magazine, which covers the computer-aided design market. In his free time he operates PushBack.com, an activist site recently converted to a hard-core XHTML Strict/CSS-2 design that still works well with older browsers, and PetesGuide.com, a technology advocacy site so standards-compliant that it exposes the multiple Achilles' heels of today's best browsers.

The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)

Issue 124October 19, 2001

More than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography. HTML specs, grammatical rules, browser bugs and character encoding—it’s all here, in this famous and much-bookmarked ALA article.