MoreCooler.com: It's more cooler with the thing

I'm doing some contract work for a cellphone store, and after two days, I finally figured out why the dump of the query string keeps showing the character ∏... one of the variables being passed it 'prod' and it's always listed at &prod in the string... so when I print it out, the browser is nice enough to convert it to ∏ for me. Seeing "mode=update&cart=0∏=145" was VERY confusing. Just thought I'd share.

The browser designers needed to heed Martin's Programming Rule #357: Any time you can describe a function of the software you're designing as "helpful" instead of "useful", a designer needs to be shot.

Firebird has taken the stance of including some of IE's quirks to keep pages looking the same. The missing semicolon on &prod (vs ∏) should keep it from rendering the character. Oh well.