On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 20:26 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
The current "external.png"
implementation is horribly broken in
languages that are right to left like Farsi, Hebrew, Arabic. So let's
create a "pdf icon" only when the implementation of the external.png is
fixed. Let's not add more garbage in a manner that we know is broken.
The implementation is simply following the CSS standards, but browsers
unfortunately tend to be more broken in RTL languages. The solution
usually is to hide the style from known-as-broken browsers while
allowing more standard-conform ones to render the extra hint. This is
called forward compatibility.
I use Firefox 1.0, that one is broken ?? IE is broken and does not show
it in the first place. So for whom have we coded this ?? Or is it OK to
show it in the left to right languages because we then do not see the
problem ?? So, by all means hide it for Firefox, it really makes Farsi
unreadable as the first characters are overlapped by this "must have"
thingie.
GerardM