X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,cca43553372999de X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-27 12:37:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.algonet.se!algonet!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed01.univie.ac.at!newsfeed01.highway.telekom.at!newsreader01.highway.telekom.at!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3dbc4b52$0$19630$91cee783@newsreader01.highway.telekom.at> From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=FCrgen?= Wallner Subject: Re: [Comic] Announce: Unicorn & Butterfly continues Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 21:22:33 +0100 References: <3dba5a89$0$32596$91cee783@newsreader02.highway.telekom.at> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: M423P013.dipool.highway.telekom.at X-Trace: 1035750226 newsreader01.highway.telekom.at 19630 62.46.42.205 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:20210 Joaquim G�ndara wrote: > Although I do wish he'd use 
 instead of one  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  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   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