Re: More Microsoft abominations (was RE: Style Sheet Support) from Walter Ian Kaye on 1997-08-09 (www-html@w3.org from August 1997)

From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 00:41:47 -0700
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <v03102813b011cdd9a430@[205.149.180.135]>

At 9:11p -0700 08/08/97, Richard Irving wrote:
 >  They're being used for the trademark symbol (tm) -- if they were to use
 > &trade; (as suggested) the symbol would not show up in a Netscape browser
 > (all the way through 4.02).   It would simply show the &trade; characters.
 > I would say this qualifies as a Netscape abomination!

Hehehe, yeah that entity really is a no-brainer to support. Jeez...

 > So how would you suggest this problem be worked around, because I'm faced
 > with it myself.

How about:

  SuperWidget<SUP>TM</SUP>

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  Walter Ian Kaye <boo_at_best*com>    Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
          Mountain View, CA                         ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML
 http://www.natural-innovations.com/     Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter

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