- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:19:19 +0100
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Charles.J.Driscoll@us.ul.com'" <Charles.J.Driscoll@us.ul.com>
> There's a nasty hack involving <font face="symbol">...</font> > and such, but if you want to do that sort of thing, I'll let > you figure it out. But I will provide a clue: > [DJW:] I consider this to be relying on broken browser behaviour; I think a correctly implemented browser would say there is no p character in the font encoding for Symbol and fall back to the best available font face that did include an encoding for p, and thus display a p in something like Times New Roman on Windows. I.E. it may work with specific current browsers, but is likely to break in the future, particularly with browsers that are not under commercial pressure to work with typical HTML abuses. By the way, IE5 correctly displays rho for ρ, using Times New Roman on NT 4.
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