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August 30, 2004

Hat tip

Colby Cosh wants a standard symbol for hat tipping links.

Is there an existing body of theory on this issue? What I'd like is if we could borrow one of the less-used HTML characters to stand in for "Hat tip", but I never know what characters will be recognized by everybody's browsers. Is the dagger closely enough associated in people's minds with the concept of a footnote to work, without explanation, as a non-ostentatious "hat tip" symbol?

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 30, 2004 08:17 AM

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Would something emoticon like that sort of looks like a tipped hat be too cute? =/ (o_o)P =/:^)

Posted by: Dave Munger at August 31, 2004 06:16 PM

If so, the tilde dosen't get much use, it's universally recognized, and has a certain I don't know what. ~

Posted by: Dave Munger at August 31, 2004 06:18 PM