I occasionally use interrobang (?! - not sure if there is a unicode character), but the rest seem quite useless.
Also, this site doesn't let you copy text...WTF developers?
Also, this site doesn't let you copy text...WTF developers?
> this site doesn't let you copy text
Being generous here, presumably people still pull this kind of ridiculous crap to prevent uninformed users from "stealing" their IP. I guess they must be smart enough to know that if it's rendering as text, anyone can access and copy it.
Many sites presenting informational content about unicode content do the same, as they cannot presume the user will see the unicode symbols rendered natively in their browser.
* {
user-select: none;
}
Blanket banning of text selection is a habit I've seen with developers who live in a touchscreen-heavy bubble, and who feel that users have no reason to select text at all unless explicitly enabled by the developer.
> As citizens of the technology era, there is an undeniable need for optimal clarity in our writing.
There, I copied that quote from their website (by disabling the relevant CSS); one example of a totally valid reason for wanting to select text.
Essentially everything (for me, at least) after the question comma is generally parenthetic in nature.
Having thought a bit about it, I'd say it's the question version of a semi-colon.
Well, yeah, since the difference between a comma and a semi-colon is the latter joins independent clauses, it is necessarily the case that any semi-colon use for joining (as opposed to its use in, e.g., lists) can be replaced by a period, you just lose the indication that the two independent clauses are tightly associated.
most of those marks only have any cause to exist at all because people are so stuffy about punctuation, unless you wrote "The Dispossessed."
{ user-select: none; }