Is there an editor in the house?
I’ve been looking at the Facebook client for the iPhone. A couple of things annoy me, a few things are good. Better than not having Facebook at all when you’re stuck somewhere and need to send or get information, but a few tweaks can make it amazing.
But that’s for another day.
Today, I come to praise Facebook. I’m still learning my way around, but it’s got a few nice features. They’re updating their privacy options and such; we’ll see if that’s an improvement. I resisted joining for so long because there wasn’t a really decent, compact privacy policy. Add an application and there’s access to a lot more than is really needed. But like I said, maybe there are improvements.
But someone programmed their update function well. Sure, any coder can put a period at the end of a sentence if the user leaves it off. But my last update ended in quotes – sans punctuation. The code inserted the period in the right place. Before the end quote, instead of after it.
I don’t know why we do it this way, or our parent (parent? cousin?) language in the UK does it their own way, but I suppose one punctuation rule is easier to program than half a dozen or more.
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Facebook’s new interface loses this functionality. Hopefully it means they can improve the iPhone interface.