We’ve been continuing our busy little process to ramp up for a launch. We’re nailing bugs as fast as we can… Most of them are the kind of thing that only occurs in strange circumstance and are pretty inconsequential in the big scheme. We tackled one yesterday though, that we’re pretty proud of.

If you’ve worked with client content a lot, -you know that clients for some reason LOVE Microsoft Word. Despite all the arguments against it, they send content in a seemingly never-ending series of Word docs. Word has a couple of really irritating features for web designers you’re probably familiar with.

We’re talking about special characters, and the strange little easter egg hunt we as web developers end up doing to find them all. They’re typographically correct, -but maddening. The smart quotes, the ellipsis, the emdash. They all turn into jibber-jabber when pasted into a browser.

Yesterday we supplemented our Textile replacement to fix these common headaches. It’s a small thing, but it will hopefully make all of your lives better if even just a tiny bit. Paste away… Jumpchart will take care of the rest.