URL Escaping is what causes those yucky percent-signs and numeric digits to show up sometimes in the middle of your otherwise perfectly legible URLs. These percent-escaped values are necessary because the list of allowed characters for a URL doesn’t cover many of the common punctuation marks we like to use, and also fails to cover [...]
I guess the last bug report got me in the mood, and since it’s 11:55 here in Somerville, I have time to write up a quickie that I just noticed again, while investigating the other bug I reported tonight!
This is an obscure bug, but part of my reason for sharing it in a post is [...]
When I first read Dan Wood’s plan for Report-An-Apple-Bug Friday, I was amused but a little disgruntled by the idea. Turns out this once long-term Apple employee has a bit more loyalty than he thought he did. Or is it just empathy? The part that turned me off was the idea that everybody should [...]
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