Re: TECH: Unicode, HTML and Edh

En réponse à David Peterson :


>For some reason or another (I can't remember why), I decided to open up 
>Internet Explorer to look at my website.  (Oh, I remember why.  Another 
>TECH question: Would there be a reason why you wouldn't be able to see 
>mouse-over messages in one browser whereas you can in another?  I'm 
>currently having this problem.  If you go to 
>http://dedalvs.free.fr/zhyler/main.html, the main links [e.g., Phonology, 
>Noun Classes, etc.] will have special messages that appear when you 
>mouseover them, but these messages only appear in Internet Explorer.  If 
>you do this on Safari, for example, all you see is the link
In Opera too, although Opera *does* support onMouseOver and I've already 
seen it work on other pages. Methinks you may be using it in a non-standard 
way. I'll try to find a page where it works and check the code...


>Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else had encountered problems like 
>these, and if so, how you solved them.  A lot of people use Internet 
>Explorer, and if they're seeing the same thing *I'm* seeing when I use 
>Internet Explorer, they'll probably think I just made a really crappy website.
What version of IE is it? AFAIK the Mac IE version is pure crap, that 
Microsoft sells only to please the anti-trust judges. It lacks a lot of 
features modern browsers have, even that IE on Windows has! It's really a 
commercial saying "buy a Windows PC next time, if you want to surf the web 
correctly".

However, IE on Windows is not much better. While Opera for instance will 
try to find Unicode characters in all the available fonts, whatever the 
font of the current text, IE will stick obstinately to the font it uses, 
and won't look further, even if the character needed appears in another 
font. I've seen many international pages that appeared correctly in Opera 
but not in IE.

So I wouldn't worry about making your page look better in IE. It's probably 
not possible anyway...

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.