Re: HTML 3.2: PRE should not exclude IMG
Walter Ian Kaye (boo@best.com)
Fri, 31 May 1996 15:55:53 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <199605312159.PAA07210@stimpy.registrar.ualberta.ca>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 15:55:53 -0700
To: www-html@w3.org
From: Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com>
Subject: Re: HTML 3.2: PRE should not exclude IMG
At 3:59p -0600 05/31/96, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
>Walter Ian Kaye writes:
>
>> I use IMG inside of PRE on my "Directory of Files" page. It works
>> perfectly, though I use it in a "relatively safe" way, I think. :)
>>
>> The algorithm Netscape uses is pretty simple:
>>
>> 1--2--3--4--5--6--7--8--9--0--1--2--3--
>> _____
>> |:::| s--o--m--e-- t--e--x--t--
>> |:::|
>> '---'
>> a--n--d-- m--o--r--e--
>>
>> The image is 1.5 characters wide, so the following text begins at the next
>> "whole" character position. With a monospace font, the relationship between
>> characters and pixels is a very short arithmetic formula, so laying this
>> out is child's play for the browser.
>
>This isn't a safe use of IMG within PRE, because it is impossible to
>create an image that's "1.5 characters wide."
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to align the "s" with the "d"; it might
align with the "n" or the space or the following "m". My point is about the
ease of the browser's calculation for making the "s" align with *a* column.
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