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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 11/19/07 04:00
On Nov 18, 8:19 pm, still just me <wheeledBobNOS...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How universal is this symbol? Can I depend on it's implementation at
> all or should I just superscript a small font ?
For recent browsers, I find the named entity for the degree symbol
works on IE6, Firefox, SeaMonkey, Opera, and Safari for Windows
browers. It also works on the W3C Amaya browser and a simulator for
the old MSNTV box.
For older browsers Appendix C: Special Characters, Powell's HTML &
XHTML, 4th ed. supplies the following support data:
Netscape: 3 to 7;
IE: 3 to 6;
Opera: 4.02 to 7;
MSNTV (this is for the Bowser browser in the old WebTV set top box.
The fairly new MSNTV box uses a watered down IE6 browser.)
One can instead use a numbered entity with the number being 176. This
works for the same browsers as the named entity with the addition of
support for Netscape 1 and 2. About the only ones who would have
Netscape 1 or 2 are collectors of antique browsers. About a year ago,
and likely still, there was a site I found for downloading antique
Netscape browsers. If something is old, there usually are at least a
few people who will want to collect it.
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