vColin

Thanks for the encouragement!

That actually reminds me - that stuff shouldn't even be in the client-code. And even if it should be there, methinks it ought to be scrambled somehow :)

Your deductions are indeed correct - I am in the UK - Cambridge in fact.

I think I know exactly what you mean - restrict the highlighted letters to be in a single direction.

Something I was considering was changing the selection mechanics so that you click at the first letter and then drag to the final letter before releasing. I think that would be more intuitive.

Yes, I agree it's raw, almost embarrassingly so. Still, release early and iterate!

Thanks for pointing that out - my IE testing has been sporadic at best! I'll definitely take a look at that.

Noted. At the moment I am just happy if anyone even visits the page though. But I realise that there is no clear direction to the new visitor. Another thing to add to the never-ending list.

Yup, the start of the first sentence should read "An official from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) told reporters today" rather than "An today".

Bad markup being the culprit - somewhat ironically.

Looking at my list of domains there are:

  * 118152 com domains ending in "book"
  * 14450 net domains ending in "book"
  * 8666 org domains ending in "book"

which is going to require a lot of litigation.

Even narrowing it down to domains ending in "book" with "face" somewhere in the domain, there are:

  * 6175 com domains
  * 691 net domains
  * 389 org comains

Where to draw the line?