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The Future of Web Proof-reading

2008-10-09

For better or worse, I’m cursed with the ability to spot typos and spelling errors that normal people miss.

For example, this one on the home page of the Future of Web Apps conference that I’m somehow not attending:

But is it really so hard to see the ‘The The‘ in this rather large graphic?

The offending extra article

Personally, I think that somewhere in the actual future of web apps, there ought to be something that can help with proof-reading as least as well as desktop apps of the actual past can.

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