When I argue I see shapes

[venta]

As per usual, I am massively behind with things I'd like to write about. I've been to Spain. I've been to Whitby. I've seen some bands. I've even read some books. But anyway...

A few weeks ago, a post from sushidog included a sentence which began "I need to div out..." and I thought huh? div? Oh well, maybe Sushidog has been talking to some people who are unusually hip, or unusually Canadian, or something. Later on in the post she mentioned that she had divd it out after all, and I thought right. Fine. I have learned a new word.

Then nalsa said it, and then susandennis... OK. That's a thing, then.

Except... it just seemed a bit weird. I got suspicious. I looked at LJ on a real, live PC web-browser instead of the Android app. Lo and behold... Everyone was reporting that they needed to figure things out, or had figured things out. For some reason, the app replaces the word "figure" with the word "div". Is this some kind of CSS transform gone wrong?

I have no idea.

(If you're reading this on the app, it probably makes no sense. I am claiming that "f-i-g-u-r-e" is replaced by "d-i-v" on the app.)

Edit: figure (at pseudomonas' suggestion, testing if fi (fi ligature) makes a difference)

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I now wonder if it replaces "figure" (beginning with an f-i ligature which most mobile devices will just replace with "f" followed by "i") in the same way as "figure" (spelt normally). If so, this is *clearly* a practical work-around for this issue.

[simont]

How weird! This smells vaguely similar to the thing I noticed a few years back where a news article mysteriously used the word htmlirin, in the context of it apparently being a drug. I scratched my head over that for a while until I found out that you could also google up instances on the Internet of exhtmlerated, rhtmlberry, and even Rhtmlutin (though now some of those only turn up me being amused by it), all clearly due to some website-migration process having globally replaced "asp" with "html" and forgotten to restrict it to only the targets of hyperlinks.

[susandennis]

It is a very secret code. The fact that you can see it means you are 'in'! Congratulations!

[shermarama]

(Are you losing some of your old letters? Or merely laughing at their conversational skills?)

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

The hubby says FIGURE is a HTML5 element...I suspect that means more to you than me :)