Naneau

As a web developer I find myself writing HTML a lot. And I’m sure that those of you who have spent more than 5 minutes doing the same thing, know the problem of entities. Because character encoding is still an issue, it’s often a good idea to write “weird” characters down using an ampersand and a few letters. A few letters you forget. There are a lot of HTML entities available. If you can honestly say you know them all by heart, it may be time to start enjoying life more. Spend some time outside, you know.

Most HTML editors have some kind of code assist that helps you find the right one. Thing about that is that the list in which you are supposed to find it is huge, and usually ordered alphabetically. This makes it pretty much impossible to find the entity you’re looking for unless you know the first letter of it’s code. Cue leftlogic’s entity character lookup. A few clever people took some time linking characters that look similar, making it possible to search for the ⊂ character by typing in “c”. I really like the concept, it’s simple, but clever.

There are still things out there waiting to be invented!