HTML and a Bonus

[c9]

Tonight's HTML lesson, boys and girls, is on symbols. There are all sorts of cute little symbols you can use to spice up your posts. For example,you can create the trademark symbol by typing an ampersand (&) followed by the word trade, finished with a semicolon. Like this: ™ = ™

Be careful to include the semicolon. Internet Explorer will pretend it's there if you forget, but Firefox won't, and you'll be all embarassed about your typo.

Others I like: © (©), £ (£), ¾ (¾), and € (€).

Many many more: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

I tell you all this so as to give you a movie review. I ♥ Huckabees is really messed up.

I cheated. There's no HTML code for a ♥. I had to copy it out of Character Map.

Comments

[c9.livejournal.com]

I thought it was considered *less* safe, since ASCII numbers only exist on systems that use ASCII or ASCII-compliant coding. (i.e. Japanese uses different codes)

I've never actually checked though.

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

i was referring to more safe as in not all browsers support the named titles of the characters. what SHOULD be happening is that ALL browsers should be fully 100% unicode, which IS internationally compliant and supports every language char-set and such.

what bugs me is that MS has horrible unicode support, especially in IE AND in the Office suite.

(did i mention that OS X and Safari both have amazing unicode support?)

check this out! (new window)

[c9.livejournal.com]

Purty!

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Peronally, I prefer GNOME. :-)

My Mac and I are on the outs right now... we're having a fight over Dashboard.