Jason, I can't offer any suggestion, but I can advise that on XP SP 2, in both FireFox 0.8 and IE 6.0 ↑ and ↓ both render fine, and seem to scale okay too...
Cheers Steve -----Original Message----- From: Jason Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:42:56 +1100 Subject: [WSG] Up and down arrows using HTML entities > Hi, > > I'm setting up a table which will can be sorted by clicking on one of > the headers, and I'd like to display the sort order (ascending or > descending) by drawing a little arrow next to the column name. I > thought about using an image, but of course it wouldn't scale with the > text. Is there a good technique for drawing a text arrow in most > browsers, which degrades nicely if it can't be displayed? > > I found a page which shows some HTML entity codes, including the > arrows, at > http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html > > I tried ↑ and ↓ and they work great in Safari 1.2.1 and > Firefox 0.9.1, but the page says browser support for those entities is > generally very poor. I don't have a PC nearby to test with, and I > have no idea what a screen reader would do. > > Am I out of luck? > > Thanks, > > -- > Jason Anderson > http://www.thenewjhp.com > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
