Re: Ruby below?

From: Martin J. Dürst (duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp)
Date: Sat Jan 15 2011 - 00:51:45 CST

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On 2011/01/15 2:25, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> Ruby, in any meaning of the word, is outside the realm of my expertise,
> but I can well imagine that Ruby-like annotations may be used that way.
> Whether they are called "Ruby" is mostly a matter of classification.
>
>> The Safari blog seems to indicate
>> that HTML5/CSS3 support placing Ruby text below.
>
> That's common practice in browsers that support Ruby markup - most
> prominently IE, which has supported it long ago, unlike Firefox, which
> apparently can't be bothered.

Well, this is actually being worked on, and some very good patches are
already available. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256274
(and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33339).

Regards, Martin.

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