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This extension actually implements xkcd #37. Yeah, for real.
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Albeit famous exceptions exist in form of Wikis, the Web today is still mostly a read-only experience. This leaves the Web content consumer exposed to all sorts of typographic cruelties, such as representing the ellipsis character ’…’ with three single full stops “...”, incorrect usage of a normal space where a non-breaking space would be preferred and even omission of the Oxford comma... While fighting the cause, namely sloppy Web authors, is like a fight against wind mills and certainly impossible to realize on Web scale, fighting the symptoms is a realistic option. Using client-side work-arounds, the Web can actually be fixed one page at a time. With this extension, we show how via part-of-speech tagging and JavaScript DOM event listeners, the Web can be made a better place.
On a related note, this extension has the bad ass-feature of actually implementing xkcd #37: http://xkcd.com/37/ Yeah, for real
Read the accompanying scientific paper: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9LlSNwL2H8YbkpsV0pLQnM2bXc
Latest reviews
- (2016-06-08) Terra Ashley: I use this semi-frequently for adding custom regex replacements, however: one of the default rules breaks google image search (fancy-apostrophe/quotes, I believe?). Also, *all* of the word-type related rules break (such as adding Oxford commas). as this is the only Oxford comma extension on chrome, that fact makes me quite sad. 3 stars because a) it breaks google image search, b) Oxford comma rule does not work.
- (2014-10-04) Michael Volling: This addon breaks google image search
- (2014-08-06) Conrad Yang: This extension breaks Google Image Search.
- (2013-12-30) K.T. Boss: Kills the DOM...needed 2 hours to figure out why my website wasn't working anymore.
- (2012-09-22) Anoji Rox: added xkcd #1031 too! sooo funny!
- (2012-07-27) Zach Hayes: I'm not a uber web developer, so I can't pinpoint the problem, but it appears (after systematically enabling/disabling all my extensions) that this addon makes it impossible for me to post status updates and comments on facebook. I even tried disabling the regex's one-by-one; no luck. I love how you're able to add your own regex's, BTW! It is a great addon in concept, and I really wanted it to work, but this problem is an addon-killer. I'll happily take this back if you can fix-it / figure out what I'm doing wrong.