Right, that's Furigana. :-) On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
> That's very cool. I used to see those annotations in the manga comics, they > called them 'furigana' I think. > > > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Raju Bitter <[email protected]> > wrote: > Henry, > > This might be interesting for you as well, if you are looking into improved > text components. > > I just ran into the <ruby> tag in HTML 5: > http://webkit.org/blog/948/ruby-rendering-in-webkit/ > "A ruby annotation is a short piece of text in smaller font, written > directly above or below or – with vertical text – to either side of the base > text. It is most often used in East Asian typography in order to provide > further information. Most commonly it shows the pronounciation of Chinese > characters." > > > > You probably know that from Japan, the annotation above the Kanjis. Would be > valuable for OpenLaszlo apps using Japanese, Chinese, ... > > - Raju > > > > > > -- > Henry Minsky > Software Architect > [email protected] > >
