How Should We Punctuate on the Web?


Screenshot showing a 404 error on the Guardian's website.

Imagine, just for a moment, you were a computer. Take a look at the following sentence and try to work out where and how you should hyperlink the text. He said "You should visit http://example.com/!" Obvious, isn't it? Except, of course, it's not really that simple. There could well be a file named "!" on the webserver. Infact, there could be file named "!"" on there. And yet, to my tastes, it looks so ugly to write something like: Visit my blog (http://example.com/blog ) The space…

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