Those are called "hanging bullets"[1] -- It's a very old typographic convention that was up-ended by the default behavior of the web. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.

Those are called "hanging bullets"[1] -- It's a very old typographic convention that was up-ended by the default behavior of the web. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_punctuation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_punctuation