The Evil that is IE.
Sep. 5th, 2006 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI've got a simple question: is it possible to get IE to reliably produce monospaced text so that you could, for instance, display ASCII art using it? I had assumed the answer was 'Yes', but a recent experiment seems to belie that notion.
If you check this out, you'll see a not-quite-finished web page about Unicode's box drawing characters and my attempts at using them to, well, draw boxes. The (unfinished) chart at the very bottom of the page is made by sticking a whole bunch of unicode entities together inside a monospaced font statement.
In Firefox this looks exactly as intended. In IE its a mess because the spaces and the line-drawing characters are different sizes, despite being inside a monospace area. I'm not sure how, or if, its possible to fix in IE. Anyone know?
If you check this out, you'll see a not-quite-finished web page about Unicode's box drawing characters and my attempts at using them to, well, draw boxes. The (unfinished) chart at the very bottom of the page is made by sticking a whole bunch of unicode entities together inside a monospaced font statement.
In Firefox this looks exactly as intended. In IE its a mess because the spaces and the line-drawing characters are different sizes, despite being inside a monospace area. I'm not sure how, or if, its possible to fix in IE. Anyone know?
