Re: [Comic] Announce: Unicorn & Butterfly continues
From Jürgen Wallner <jue...@unicornandbutterfly.purrsia.com>
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· 27 Oct 2002 20:22 · View full thread
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Joaquim Gï¿œndara wrote: > Although I do wish he'd use <PRE> instead of one <TT></TT> for each > line of art. Soon I'm going to have to download all of his strips and > write a quick and dirty program to convert them. Sorry, actually this is required as a workaround around another workaround. ;-) The problem is that some installations (yes, installations, and not versions!) of IE will not display the middot character unless you are using a true type font. The workaround I chose was to enclose the character in question with <TT></TT> and rely on browser's different css inheritance rules so that IE is tricked into thinking that it should use the default courier fount while other browsers will (IMHO correctly) let TT inherit the font from the enclosing block level element PRE. This results in an overall correct behaviour, only that Opera now gets confused with different line-heights (which are necessary to get the right layout in IE), unless of course you put an empty <TT> </TT> in every line... I stopped doing this when a new version of Opera finally seemed to do fine without that (but there are still some unexplained effects concerning line heights). Rest assured that almost every strange piece of HTML on my site has its very special meaning (or at least has had once when a certain browser version was popular) - sometimes even operating system specific. Fact is that I could perfectly well write strict HTML4.01+CSS2 and explain why each and every browser I know fails to display the stuff correctly. Unfortunately nobody could see my strip then... I admit that the current solution still leaves much to be desired, and I welcome any suggestions (be it how to address a specific problem or how to improve the design in general) but at least it seems to work for a majority of people. If there is popular demand, I'll try to upload text versions of all my strips - anyone intrested? JW
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