Sent by Jukka K. Korpela on 3 September 2003 05:05
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> How about using a image, dynamically generated on the server if need be,
> with appropiate alt tags etc, its not a CSS solution, but might be good for
> a last resort.
Images used in place of characters suffer from the problem of being in
fixed size in pixels. I hope it is clear that an attempt to solve this by
setting the font size in pixels would create far more problems than it
could solve.
Theoretically we could use CSS to scale such an image to the font size,
using e.g. height: 0.8em. The problem with this is that browsers do a
poor job in rescaling images. I've tested how the idea works, and it
doesn't work well even for a relatively simple character like the euro
sign, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/euro.html#img
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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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