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I had thought that ensuring a Web page was 100% standards-compliant was the way to get rid of the compatibility button that IE8 displays to help you view pages that looked fine in IE7 but don't look so good in its (presumably more exacting) successor, IE8.

I can't count the number of times that I have had to deal with the "special character" problem. You know the problem--you're reading along on some Web site, perhaps even a Web site that you are managing, and you find words with weird characters--maybe Euro signs, accented upper and lower case characters and whatnot--interspersed with the normal text. Or perhaps the whole page is simply gibberish. Or maybe there is just a stray question mark in the middle of words here and there.

I got the annotate example from chapter 2 working with Drupal 6. The code I used is here: http://emma.ojctech.com/~rohde/public/ProDrupalDevelopment/ch2/.

In modifying the code, I've used '#' at the beginning of lines to comment out obsolete code in the books Drupal 5 version, and '###' for my own comments. (Exception: For obvious reasons, I used ';' and ';;;' respectively in the annotate.info file.) Those comments should make it fairly clear what code I've added.