[Rhodes22-list] Joe Babb look at this inflatable PFD's they must have heard you!

John Lock jlock at relevantarts.com
Sun Feb 17 10:52:21 EST 2008


At 10:02 AM 2/17/2008 -0500, Joe Babb wrote:
>Finally figured out that it's a computer thing.  The word "quot" 
>replaced the " quotation marks that were used to indicate inches.

More specifically it's an HTML thing.  It was supposed to be an HTML 
entity name that represents a double quote.  It should have been 
coded as " which a browser would render as "  But it appears a 
data entry glitch lost the leading & so the browser interpreted the 
remainder literally.

Cheers!

John Lock
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s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
Lake Sinclair, GA
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