On Sep 28, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> Could anyone explain why the leading "M" of the following paragraph :
>
> <p style="margin-top: 2.3em"><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/Ugandan
> infant in a laundry basket.lbi" --><img id="Infant-Uganda-001"
> src="Resources/Images/Photographs/Web/Scaled/240/Infant-Uganda.001.jpg"
> longdesc="../Resources/Images/Photographs/Web/Longdesc/Infant-Uganda-001.html"
> alt="Ugandan infant in a laundry basket" width="320" height="240"><!--
> #EndLibraryItem -->M<span class="Keyphrase">any of us</span> are lucky enough
> to take anaesthesia for granted. Surely a world without safe anaesthesia has
> long been confined to the history books ? Not in the developing
> world, where hospitals lack suitable equipment, medicines and trained
> staff.</p>
>
> is not matched by this CSS rule :
>
> DIV.Content P:first-letter {color: red; letter-spacing: 0.075em}
>
> whereas the leading "M" of the following paragraph is ?
>
> <p style="margin-top: 2.3em">M<span class="Keyphrase">any of us</span>
> are lucky enough to take anaesthesia for granted. Surely a world without safe
> anaesthesia has long been confined to the history books ? Not in
> the developing world, where hospitals lack suitable equipment, medicines and
> trained staff.</p>
>
> The obvious difference is that an <IMG> element intervenes,
> but should that really cause the "M" not to be classed as
> the first /letter/ of the paragraph ?
Have you tested this in anything beside a Gecko browser ?
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159403
WFM in WebKit and Opera.
Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
http://l-c-n.com/
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