Being generous here, presumably people still pull this kind of ridiculous crap to prevent uninformed users from "stealing" their IP. I guess they must be smart enough to know that if it's rendering as text, anyone can access and copy it.
It's a site where they are sharing a new idea that they want people to adopt..and so naturally they try and restrict the ability to copy and share it. Makes sense.
They have purposely disabled being able to select text (outside of the SVG graphics) by literally doing this in CSS:
* {
user-select: none;
}
The user-select: none; is intended for places where interaction with an element (e.g., drag and drop, clicking, sliding) is required and text selection should not occur. You might use it discretely on a HTML button.
Blanket banning of text selection is a habit I've seen with developers who live in a touchscreen-heavy bubble, and who feel that users have no reason to select text at all unless explicitly enabled by the developer.
> As citizens of the technology era, there is an undeniable need for optimal clarity in our writing.
There, I copied that quote from their website (by disabling the relevant CSS); one example of a totally valid reason for wanting to select text.
They're using SVG because support for these non-standard punctuation varies across browsers and OS's, so its safest to use an image.
Many sites presenting informational content about unicode content do the same, as they cannot presume the user will see the unicode symbols rendered natively in their browser.
I'd use a question comma, there are often times where I'll phrase a question and then expound on some deeper specifics - generally things that I would consider implied, but that many people would miss, leading to the misinterpretation of the question.
Essentially everything (for me, at least) after the question comma is generally parenthetic in nature.
Well, yeah, since the difference between a comma and a semi-colon is the latter joins independent clauses, it is necessarily the case that any semi-colon use for joining (as opposed to its use in, e.g., lists) can be replaced by a period, you just lose the indication that the two independent clauses are tightly associated.
a question mark doesn't have to end a sentence. such a question mark is often used to separate a succession of questions that all elaborate one idea. it used to be more common, but i know as recently as 1991 ursula le guin used it in the story "Texts", ("Whatever those eleven years had been, the length of a marriage? a child's life? they were gone"...)
most of those marks only have any cause to exist at all because people are so stuffy about punctuation, unless you wrote "The Dispossessed."
The page somehow disables text selection. (Couldn't figure it out from briefly looking at the DOM inspector.) This behavior is rather annoying and unnecessary, as I was trying to quote some pieces of text to share.
> this site doesn't let you copy text
Being generous here, presumably people still pull this kind of ridiculous crap to prevent uninformed users from "stealing" their IP. I guess they must be smart enough to know that if it's rendering as text, anyone can access and copy it.