HTML interpretation of Quotation mark: `"` vs `”`

Question

Can someone explain what's going on for this code to produce green text:

<font color=”red”>Red, anyone?</font>

http://jsfiddle.net/WGSNX/7/. I assume it's something to do with the first ” symbol, but why should HTML parse that differently to "?

Answer 1

It is simple: = ”red” = 0red0 (" is not ascii so make 0) = 00ed0 (r is not hex so make 0) = 00ed00 (pad)

#00ed00 is green