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Hey Midnight Walk guy! Big Bill 06-05-2008
Posted by Big Bill on June 5, 2008, 3:50 pm
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 How come you got stuff like this in the code?

<SPAN lang="EN-GB">&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB">

Why would you have stuff in there to say that the language is UK
English? Did you put that in after the site started appearing in
Google.de to make Google understand that this is a UK site, or was it
always there?

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Posted by Gerhard on June 6, 2008, 2:23 am
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 Big Bill schrieb:
> How come you got stuff like this in the code?
>
> <SPAN lang="EN-GB">&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB">
>
> Why would you have stuff in there to say that the language is UK
> English? Did you put that in after the site started appearing in
> Google.de to make Google understand that this is a UK site, or was it
> always there?
>

I think this is usually used by screen reader software for correct
pronouncing.


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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on June 6, 2008, 2:37 am
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> Big Bill schrieb:
>> How come you got stuff like this in the code?
>>
>> <SPAN lang="EN-GB">&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB">
>>
>> Why would you have stuff in there to say that the language is UK
>> English? Did you put that in after the site started appearing in
>> Google.de to make Google understand that this is a UK site, or was it
>> always there?
>>
>
> I think this is usually used by screen reader software for correct
> pronouncing.
>
>

Is there a difference in the pronounciation of a non-breaking space?
Seriously, that's just bloat. Such markup should be used for a word,
phrase or a block level element.

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Posted by Guy Macon on June 6, 2008, 4:29 am
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Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>
>
>> Big Bill schrieb:
>>
>>> How come you got stuff like this in the code?
>>>
>>> <SPAN lang="EN-GB">&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB">
>>>
>>> Why would you have stuff in there to say that the language is UK
>>> English? Did you put that in after the site started appearing in
>>> Google.de to make Google understand that this is a UK site, or was it
>>> always there?
>>
>> I think this is usually used by screen reader software for correct
>> pronouncing.
>
>Is there a difference in the pronounciation of a non-breaking space?
>Seriously, that's just bloat. Such markup should be used for a word,
>phrase or a block level element.

I think it's Cymru (AKA Wales) where they pronounce "&nbsp;" differently.
It sure looks like a typical Cymraeg (AKA Welsh) word to me...

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Posted by Gerhard on June 8, 2008, 7:05 am
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Adrienne Boswell schrieb:
>
> Is there a difference in the pronounciation of a non-breaking space?
> Seriously, that's just bloat. Such markup should be used for a word,
> phrase or a block level element.
>

Have you ever seen code created by Word for Windows ;-)

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