- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:47:35 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@niksula.hut.fi>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > I agree that it would be good to discourage the use of the question > mark as a generic surrogate. However, I think the implementation > details should follow the OS practice and not be normatively specified > in CSS when there is an OS practice. > > * Using the OS practice helps the user understand that a missing > character is being represented, because the behavior is consistent > with the behavior of other apps. > * The OS text engine may do the fallback internally, which is likely > to be more efficient than application-side fallback. You can't rely on the OS system, because it is almost certainly not going to be a CSS-compliant system. However, I agree that an OS-specific fallback mechanism is preferred. > Screenshot: > http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~hsivonen/typography/last-resort.png That's insane. :-) -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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