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MarkPilgrimon Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you

I complained about that, but it was too late to do anything about it. (You don't usually even see those frontmatter pages during the book-writing/editing/proofing process.)

MarkPilgrimon Dive into Python 3: Strings

Thanks for noticing!

Fun fact: I originally coded that "by hand," i.e. manipulating the DOM in pure JavaScript. Then I decided to rewrite it in jQuery, which I had heard about but never used. Then I realized that I will never voluntarily write JavaScript without jQuery, ever again.

MarkPilgrimon Dive into Python 3: Strings

I am, in fact, particularly proud of that. 3.5% of my (compressed) CSS is devoted to using the best available ampersand. http://simplebits.com/notebook/2008/08/14/ampersands.html