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Posted by dorayme on 03/31/07 07:11
On Mar 31, 1:38 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article <eiir039psurc4k241f1lab9tblanlk9...@4ax.com>,
>
> Cogito <nos...@nospam.nospam> wrote:
> > >Part of Office, as I wrote earlier. It used to be freely downloadable, but
> > >that was years ago. As I tried to explain, using the chess queen characters
> > >can be viewed by people who either have Office installed (with "Arial
> > >Unicode MS" installed with it) or have downloaded and installed the
> > >"Code2000" font. That's far from universality, but not particularly poor
> > >coverage, and you previously wrote that the pages are primarily for your
> > >local use.
>
> > For a moment I thought that with this font I may have the best of both
> > worlds. After re-reading your earlier post I do realise that you had
> > mentioned Office. My son actually has office on his computer but
> > perhaps it is an older release. I'm using Office 2007 and it is
> > certainly there.
>
> Do consider a graphic, you can get the queen in many ways. One
> way is to choose a large font, get that queen character however
> and screenshot it. Prepare it as a png or gif and try specifying
> its width in % terms in the css for placement in the table cell.
> This will get you some respectable scaling. Worth having a decko
> at.
>
> I know that this sort of thing works particularly well when
> viewed in a browser like Safari or FF on a Mac with the display
> card/OS technology, it is not as brilliant in IE on a Windows
> machine (but then, most fonts also look more "bit-mapped" on
> these machines after coming from a modern Mac).
>
> Look at:
>
> <http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/test/chessGifScaling.htm
> l>
>
> Depending on whether you just give a width or a width and a
> height, you get some interesting results. I have just used a gif
> that was handy, imagine a nice queen instead. And look at this in
> Firefox. Change the browser text size. Also good in Safari. All
> hell breaks loose in iCab, Opera is strange, strange, strange
> (but this is not a browser I am familiar with, though I
> understand it is very classy).
It all looks hopeless now I am at a friend's Windows machine with FF
in another suburb. I think it has something to do with Windows not the
suburb. I temporarily give up.
But don't relax too much. I might revisit this at a time you lot least
expect it.
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