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it's just a joke using a unicode x-ish char would still do the same as the check...
by keefe 14y ago
it's just a joke using a unicode x-ish char would still do the same as the check...
- jerf 14y agoI sort of think the snowman, or at least another character that doesn't carry the connotation of "positive" or "true", is a better idea... but I have to admit any developer who would make that mistake is, alas, so far in over their head anyhow that there's probably no saving them from themselves, so, you know, check's cool.
- anjc 14y agoTo be fair, and as you basically said, having “utf8=✓" is counterintuitive when it's being used as an IE hack rather than an actual descriptive parameter. I could imagine many competent enough developers seeing this parameter in someone else's code, or in a book or something, and immediately thinking that changing the tick to an X would make a difference, because that'd only make sense.
- keefe 14y agoI think that vaguely competent would require analytical skills good enough to say, ok utf8="non ascii character", now if I change it to another nonascii character is that likely to change my request's execution path in the server...
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- alexkus 14y agoParkinson's law of triviality.