Christoph Päper <christoph dot paeper at crissov dot de> wrote: >> Here I agree. (Not sure why that branch of this tread is still >> ongoing...) > > Perhaps because today people usually write, in inline HTML[1], > something like > > <img alt="2½ out of 5 stars" src="2.5_stars.png"> > > instead of > > <img alt="1 star" src="star.png"> > <img alt="1 star" src="star.png"> > <img alt="½ star" src="half_star.png">
People use images in HTML for all kinds of things that don't translate one-to-one into encoded characters. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
