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Re:Show HN: Quill - Interactive Writing Activities by JasonFruit on Thursday July 03, 2014 @04:36PM (#7985609)
I'm curious about the unusual in-sentence double-spaces in the example paragraph. Is there a technical reason for them?

EDIT:

I see now that they are not double-spaces, but that I was being confused by the editing unit of a word and its following space. I'm impressed with how well the tool localizes where a change has been made, but I wish more common editing facilities --- especially navigation across word boundaries with the arrow keys --- could have been preserved.

Re:Show HN: Quill - Interactive Writing Activities by gault8121 on Monday July 07, 2014 @03:26PM (#8000793)
Hi Jason,

Thanks for this feedback! We are an open source community, and this sounds like a great project for a hacker to pick up. I'm making a GitHub issue for it now. Thanks!

Re:Show HN: Quill - Interactive Writing Activities by liquidise on Thursday July 03, 2014 @04:28PM (#7985555)
On Opera (23.0.1522.43) there is a rather painful redirect loop rending the site entirely unusable.

Technical issues aside, this is really well done.

Re:Show HN: Quill - Interactive Writing Activities by bobbo_ on Thursday July 03, 2014 @04:40PM (#7985637)
Same thing on Chrome 35.0.1916.153 on Windows 8.1. Shame, it looks really interesting but that totally put me off.
Re:Show HN: Quill - Interactive Writing Activities by gault8121 on Monday July 07, 2014 @03:26PM (#8000797)
Thanks for this note! We are looking into it now.
Re:Show HN: Quill - Interactive Writing Activities by mrmondo on Friday July 04, 2014 @03:44AM (#7987779)
Also broken on Chrome 35.0.1916.153
Re:Show HN: Quill - Interactive Writing Activities by gault8121 on Monday July 07, 2014 @03:42PM (#8000914)
Thanks for posting this! Checking it out now.
Re:Show HN: Quill - Interactive Writing Activities by mlent on Friday July 04, 2014 @09:12AM (#7988598)
This looks great. I was definitely engaged by the home page and found it fun to read -- maybe a number-of-edits tracker on the side so you don't have to keep re-counting how many errors you've corrected?