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JOURNALIST ORDERED TO REPAIR $2-MILLION PORSCHE 917 REPLICA

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2 pointsniggler6 comments

NO NEED TO SHOUT.

Sorry, I just copied from the article title (which happens to be in caps)

Actually, the title, which displays in uppercase, copies in mixed-case. Try it. It seems you typed your title, you didn't copy it from the page.

Here's the text copied directly from the page title: "You break it, you bought it: Journalist ordered to repair $2-million Porsche 917 replica"

The reason? The page uses an all-caps font (or a CSS trick) to force uppercase on what is actually a mixed-case title. The evidence? View the page source and try to find an all-caps title in the HTML code. Not there.

I'm using chrome Version 24.0.1312.57 on OSX and it is copying-pasting in all-caps.

Testing again:

    $ pbpaste
    JOURNALIST ORDERED TO REPAIR $2-MILLION PORSCHE 917 REPLICA

What OS/Browser are you using?

EDIT: both safari and firefox do the right thing (pbpaste below) but chrome keeps the all-caps version

    $ pbpaste
    Journalist ordered to repair $2-million Porsche 917 replica

    Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/you-break-it-you-bought-it-journalist-ordered-to-repair-2-million-porsche/#ixzz2LIstn2Jl
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> What OS/Browser are you using?

Fedora Linux, and Chrome 24.0.1312.69.

At first I didn't believe my own result so I looked at the page source -- no caps. Oh, well, it's a mystery. :)

hmm ubuntu 12.04 + chromium 24.0.1312.56 (fresh install from ISO, apt-get install chromium-version, running within vmware fusion) shows the same result.

Try http://jsfiddle.net/KD87G/

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