> Your alternative suggestion using svg seemed to require the user to > handle the details of glyph positioning with specified horizontal > advances, which is surely a very strange requirement. Or maybe I have > misunderstood what was going on here.
Perhaps so does yours. It isn't clear whether the CSS for .red-text would have to over-ride the default behaviour whereby an inline element like <span> is rendered by stacking it to the left or right (depending on text directionality) of the previous inline element or text node, or if the accent should go over the e by default. Briefly testing on a Win2000 box I found that IE6 ignored the styling on the accent, Mozilla1.4 didn't show the accent, and Opera7.2 displayed the red accent (tests had the same results with ́ as with the combining character used directly). It isn't clear to me which, if any, of these are examples of conformant behaviour. -- Jon Hanna | Toys and books <http://www.hackcraft.net/> | for hospitals: | <http://santa.boards.ie/>
