Re: Missing geometric shapes

From: Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:19:56 -0700

Christoph Päper <christoph dot paeper at crissov dot de> wrote:

>> Here I agree. (Not sure why that branch of this tread is still
>> ongoing...)
>
> Perhaps because today people usually write, in inline HTML[1],
> something like
>
> <img alt="2½ out of 5 stars" src="2.5_stars.png">
>
> instead of
>
> <img alt="1 star" src="star.png">
> <img alt="1 star" src="star.png">
> <img alt="½ star" src="half_star.png">

People use images in HTML for all kinds of things that don't translate
one-to-one into encoded characters.

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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
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