John Sonderson questions

• Arabic: how to conveniently enter dagger-vowels (AKA miniature vowels) and alif-wasla with PC keyboard
• CSS: "text-transform: capitalize" and Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc
• List item marker and list item text are not aligning
• CSS 2.1 spec: pathological case: html root element margin color
• CSS 2.1 spec: 8.3.1 Collapsing margins: cannot properly interpret special case: clarification sought
• PHP static factory method: dynamically instantiate instance of the calling class
• Does it make sense to use source control to manage graphics files (e.g. PSDs & AI files)
• Difference between a lambda function and a closure (in PHP)?
• Can hyphens be used in query string values?
• Meaning of HTML prefix attribute (Open Graph Protocol)?

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