xkcd #37 in Chrome with OffiDocs
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DESCRIPTION
Albeit famous exceptions exist in form of Wikis, the Web today is still mostly a read-only experience.
This leaves the Web content consumer exposed to all sorts of typographic cruelties, such as representing the ellipsis character ’…’ with three single full stops “.
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”, incorrect usage of a normal space where a non-breaking space would be preferred and even omission of the Oxford comma.
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While fighting the cause, namely sloppy Web authors, is like a fight against wind mills and certainly impossible to realize on Web scale, fighting the symptoms is a realistic option.
Using client-side work-arounds, the Web can actually be fixed one page at a time.
With this extension, we show how via part-of-speech tagging and JavaScript DOM event listeners, the Web can be made a better place.
On a related note, this extension has the bad ass-feature of actually implementing xkcd #37: http://xkcd.
com/37/ Yeah, for real Read the accompanying scientific paper: https://docs.
google.
com/open?id=0B9LlSNwL2H8YbkpsV0pLQnM2bXc
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xkcd #37 web extension integrated with the OffiDocs Chromium online
