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

From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 05:17:52 -0700 (PDT)
To: Richard Irving <ricci@azstarnet.com>
cc: "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@microsoft.com>, www-html@w3.org, Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970809045204.5948A-100000@ns.viet.net>

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, 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!
> 
> So how would you suggest this problem be worked around, because I'm faced
> with it myself.

<sup><small>(tm)</small></sup> or <img src="tm.gif" alt="&trade;"> or even
&#8482; (you _may_ need to throw in a META declaration of the charset to
be UTF-8 - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" value="text/html; charset=UTF-8">).
*ALL* of these work with both NS4.01 and MSIE4.0pr2.

--
Benjamin Franz

Received on Saturday, 9 August 1997 08:18:28 UTC