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		handelaar on Jan 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a ... Why you should always, always use two spaces after a full-stop (when writing for online use): 1. Because it remains correct in monospace, and 2. Because no HTML rendering engine displays the second one anyway. This man's rather ill-informed about the 'tech' part of his 'tech column' gig.

colomon on Jan 14, 2011 [–]

Not just that -- doesn't he give the strong impression he manually changes each instance of a double space he runs into?

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