Posted by Neredbojias on 10/25/07 18:34

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:55:10 GMT
Dylan Parry scribed:

> I've been experimenting with using various different types of dash,
> hyphens and other typographical symbols that aren't present on the
> keyboard. One thing I came across was an inconsistency in the way that
> Internet Explorer 7 displays the hyphen character (not the hyphen-minus,
> but a proper hyphen). FWIW, IE6 doesn't appear to display the character
> at all.
>
> What I noticed is that the hyphen appears to be placed higher up than it
> should be, for example: "up‐to‐date" is rendered correctly in every
> browser that I tested, but in IE7 the hyphens are right up at the top of
> the words.

I get them pretty high up in Firefox, too, (with default font [serif?]).
Can't see in Opera because my background is black. Ie6, as you imply,
displays the box.

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Neredbojias
Just a boogar in the proboscis of life.

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