Tiny Tick Marks In Some Upper Left APOD Screens?

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Tiny Tick Marks In Some Upper Left APOD Screens?

Post by Evenstar » Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:00 am

Noticed a couple recent APOD's with small funny shaped black "tick marks" in the upper left screen corners that are part of those page displays. Maybe I have a little to much OCD but I find these marks a little irritating and from my perspective at least unnecessary. Is there a good explanation to satisfy?
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Re: Tiny Tick Marks In Some Upper Left APOD Screens?

Post by Chris Peterson » Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:40 pm

Evenstar wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:00 am Noticed a couple recent APOD's with small funny shaped black "tick marks" in the upper left screen corners that are part of those page displays. Maybe I have a little to much OCD but I find these marks a little irritating and from my perspective at least unnecessary. Is there a good explanation to satisfy?
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Re: Tiny Tick Marks In Some Upper Left APOD Screens?

Post by neufer » Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:21 pm


Chris Peterson wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:40 pm
Evenstar wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:00 am
Noticed a couple recent APOD's with small funny shaped black "tick marks" in the upper left screen corners that are part of those page displays. Maybe I have a little to much OCD but I find these marks a little irritating and from my perspective at least unnecessary. Is there a good explanation to satisfy?
Example?
Funny "ha-ha" or funny peculiar :?:
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Re: Tiny Tick Marks In Some Upper Left APOD Screens?

Post by Evenstar » Mon Jul 08, 2019 5:14 pm

Chris Peterson wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:40 pm
Evenstar wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:00 am Noticed a couple recent APOD's with small funny shaped black "tick marks" in the upper left screen corners that are part of those page displays. Maybe I have a little to much OCD but I find these marks a little irritating and from my perspective at least unnecessary. Is there a good explanation to satisfy?
Example?
Okay, well, not today's. Will poke around for a previous one under the calendar or wait to see another. Thanks.
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Re: Tiny Tick Marks In Some Upper Left APOD Screens?

Post by Evenstar » Tue Jul 09, 2019 9:27 am

Evenstar wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2019 5:14 pm
Chris Peterson wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:40 pm
Evenstar wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:00 am Noticed a couple recent APOD's with small funny shaped black "tick marks" in the upper left screen corners that are part of those page displays. Maybe I have a little to much OCD but I find these marks a little irritating and from my perspective at least unnecessary. Is there a good explanation to satisfy?
Example?
Okay, well, not today's. Will poke around for a previous one under the calendar or wait to see another. Thanks.
Okay, today... (solar eclipse with birds). Sorry, I can't figure out how to imbed photo, if possible. Must use a picture sharing site and use the url to the picture? May still do that but not now--too late.

Btw, the mark isn't present in any previous Calendar pictures. It is only present on some of the APODs--not all. And for the record I'm using a MacBook Pro with Safari. I am not going to install Chrome to troubleshoot this with a different browser.

This is the closest text representation of the mark--the backwards accent mark < ` >. It is a little bigger, not as steep an angle and is tampered slightly too. :shock:
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Re: Tiny Tick Marks In Some Upper Left APOD Screens?

Post by Chris Peterson » Tue Jul 09, 2019 1:19 pm

Evenstar wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 9:27 am
Evenstar wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2019 5:14 pm
Chris Peterson wrote: Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:40 pm Example?
Okay, well, not today's. Will poke around for a previous one under the calendar or wait to see another. Thanks.
Okay, today... (solar eclipse with birds). Sorry, I can't figure out how to imbed photo, if possible. Must use a picture sharing site and use the url to the picture? May still do that but not now--too late.

Btw, the mark isn't present in any previous Calendar pictures. It is only present on some of the APODs--not all. And for the record I'm using a MacBook Pro with Safari. I am not going to install Chrome to troubleshoot this with a different browser.

This is the closest text representation of the mark--the backwards accent mark < ` >. It is a little bigger, not as steep an angle and is tampered slightly too. :shock:
Yes, it's an ordinary accent grave character (code 0x60) after the BODY markup. Probably a character that got inserted accidentally at some point in the past and continues to show up because of a copy-and-paste new page construction system.
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Post by Evenstar » Tue Jul 09, 2019 5:29 pm

Don't know what happened to the post I just made? Anyway, is this accent grave generated sometimes at my end or at APOD's end? Can I "let go of the problem"?
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Re: Tiny Tick Marks In Some Upper Left APOD Screens?

Post by Chris Peterson » Tue Jul 09, 2019 5:32 pm

Evenstar wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 5:29 pm Don't know what happened to the post I just made? Anyway, is this accent grave generated sometimes at my end or at APOD's end? Can I "let go of the problem"?
It's hard coded in the HTML. Nothing you can do about it, short of writing a script of some kind to filter it out. I guess it comes down to how badly it bothers you.
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