Curtis Wilcox

Digital accessibility developer in higher ed

Language: English 🇺🇸
Location: Boston, Massachusetts USA
GitHub: https://github.com/extra808

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2026-08-26 00:07:29 UTC

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No problem 👍

2026-08-25 17:50:08 UTC

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"Please forget I ever watched this, then scrub the record that listed I wanted this forgotten."
That's what burner profiles are for. 🤪
I just want the option to make generated lists on the home screen omit what I've already watched or rated.
Netflix streaming used to have a 5 star system, they replaced them with thumbs in 2017 (their disc subscription service kept using star until the bitter end). They also used to have a "Not interested" button, "Jack and Jill" was one of the rare instances when I used it.
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/goodbye-stars-hello-thumbs

2024-10-16 12:17:59 UTC

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<q> does a few things:
It localizes the marks, it will use the marks that fit the `lang` set on a parent element. Add `lang="fr"` to see how the appearance of <q> changes.
It automatically makes quotation marks "curly" instead of straight. Your article appears to have curly quotes in the text but my guess is something did that formatting for you, you didn't use an arcane key combination to type open quote, close quote characters. <q> uses pseudo-elements to add the right characters.
Because the curly quote characters aren't a part of the text, they don't get mangled by encoding mismatches (e.g. Unicode vs. Latin-1).
In languages that use them, it automatically alternates between double quote (") and single quote (') marks for nested quotations; outermost is double, next quote in is single, then inside that is double, and so on.