June 06, 2005

Amazon'S apostrophe problem

Here's another website quirk i came across; this time at Amazon. I first noticed it when they switched over to the new reduced-tab header. I figured it was just a result of the transition and would soon be corrected, but the problem is still there. It has to do with the way things with apostrophes are capitalized. As you can see from the screen shot, they have the "s" after the apostrophes in uppercase, i.e. "Matthew'S" and "Today'S." Turns out the problem on appears in Safari (not in Firefox). Yes, i know i'm running an older version of Safari but i didn't think it would that uncommon. Of all that things to not work right, i was quite surprised by this one. I can only guess it's some weird CSS thing.

Amazon apostrophe screen shot (click for full size)

Posted by Matthew at June 6, 2005 07:12 PM
Comments

Hm.......that is a quandary.

Posted by: Amie at June 8, 2005 09:26 AM