- From: <JOrendorff@ixl.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:52:44 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
Matthew Brealey wrote:
> This can become more obvious when you think of inline
> vector graphics used to extend the glyph set -- for example:
>
> del { text-decoration: line-through; }
> img { height: 1em; }
>
> <del>
> The singer changed his name to
> <img src="symbol.svg" alt="a funny symbol">.
> </del>
Tim Bannister wrote:
> That's all very well but using graphics, even if they are svg,
> as text is not really terribly semantic (it's not really much
> better than spacer gifs and text buttons made from images).
Yes. The correct solution, obviously, is to get the singer's new
name added to the Unicode character set.
--
Jason Orendorff
http://www.alarmist.org/
Favorite Unicode codepoint:
U+54fd UPPERCASE ROMAN N WITH CARON WRITTEN WHILE SIPPING HOT CHAI TEA
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