[thelist] Another Site Critique (Please)
rudy
r937 at interlog.com
Mon Jan 29 15:08:31 CST 2001
>> You may also try using • for the bullets instead of <LI>
>>....this should make the bullet in the same font as your text and
>> may do the trick...
>
> I was slightly concerned about how well supported that entity is
> across browsers and platforms. Are there any known problems with it?
hi beau
you are right to be concerned if you wish to support site visitors having
non-windows operating systems on their computers....
"ISO-8859-1 does not assign displayable characters
to code points in the range (decimal)128-159.
Some platforms (e.g MS Windows) that are
otherwise ISO-8859-1 conformant, might use
these codes to represent additional character
encodings, but they cannot and should not be
relied on for communicating information on the
World Wide Web - they could display as anything,
or nothing, on other platforms or browsers"
the above is from "ISO-8859 briefing and resources" at
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-pointers.html
see also "Character entity references in HTML 4" at
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html
rudy.ca
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