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The Entifyr

Posted by Steven Wake on November 04, 2008

The Entifyr is a small web application that started life as an personal experiment to automate the removal of problem characters from client supplied content (usually Microsoft Word documents). The offending characters are replaced with corresponding entities (hence the name) allowing the content to display correctly.

I prototyped the application very quickly in only a couple of hours. It went through a total of 24 mini iterations, tweaking functionality and design. It remained internal for a good long while until, finally yesterday after being ported from Prototype to jQuery and an extensive rewrite of the Javascript, we released it to the world.

The application is a work in progress, any bugs, comments or suggestions are very welcome.

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7 comments

  1. Christopher commented on November 06, 2008 at 08:48 PM

    This is tremendous! I often am blessed with the task of inputting content onto our sites. This will really help considering we’re always sent Word docs. Thanks for making such a cool internal tool public!

  2. Steven commented on November 07, 2008 at 02:54 PM

    Thank you for the kind words Christopher. I hope to do a new iteration next week adding some functionality. I also have a new design (courtesy of Pete O), so stay tuned.

  3. Stephen commented on November 10, 2008 at 09:52 PM

    This is great. I love the simplicity.

  4. Laszlo commented on November 11, 2008 at 05:07 PM

    Excellent app. Simple, clean, effective. One wish-list item: handle em and en dashes.

  5. Steven commented on November 14, 2008 at 05:56 PM

    Sure Laszlo, good point. Give me about a week I’ll take a look

  6. Dario Gutierrez commented on November 14, 2008 at 07:16 PM

    Thanks for sharing Steven, really cool application!! Regards!!

  7. Stephen commented on November 17, 2008 at 06:32 PM

    One thing I noticed as well, the trade mark™ isn’t being converted to ™

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