A text decoration question

[dorayme]

The proof is trivial. Anyone who multiposts hasn't analyzed his problem
properly. Whatever he might need in general, his real need with the problem
at hand is to analyze the problem better. Hence he does not need to try to
solve the wrong problem. QED.

OK, I like this sort of evidence. The above argument is not
entirely consistent but I will let it pass as it enters so
magnificently into the spirit of a Wild Strategic generalization.

You operate at the rarefied level of GHQ, I am too miserably
conscious of the effects of this on the actual troops that had to
get out of the trenches at the Somme and walk over open machine
gun raked ground....

 

[Joel Shepherd]

You operate at the rarefied level of GHQ, I am too miserably
conscious of the effects of this on the actual troops that had to
get out of the trenches at the Somme and walk over open machine
gun raked ground....

It's just HTML. No one ever died over it, and certainly not thousands on
a single day. Don't let it throw you too much.

 

[dorayme]

It's just HTML. No one ever died over it, and certainly not thousands on
a single day. Don't let it throw you too much.

This is just not true, 7 people in my street alone were gunned
down yesterday over the question of the kosherosity of empty
divs...

 

[Toby Inkster]

Why? Looks the same to me in Seamonkey and Firefox, maybe a slight
heavier, but maybe tweaking your padding may improve it.

Checked in Moz 1.7.11 and found that the line from the strike-through is a
couple of pixels lower than the line added by the background image, which
results in two lines through the text -- a fat anti-aliased one, and a
thin sharp one.

In IE 6 and Opera 9, the thin line is superimposed above the fat line,
giving the impression of just one line.

This may be font-dependant though.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Checked in Moz 1.7.11 and found that the line from the strike-through is a
couple of pixels lower than the line added by the background image, which
results in two lines through the text -- a fat anti-aliased one, and a
thin sharp one.

There is a difference of option of what constitutes the *bounding box*
of a character among browsers. I became most aware of this in my own
site where I have boxed dropcaps. Moz 1.7.x was the most generous
including all possible ascender and descender space + padding and IE was
the least just to the baseline. SeaMonkey and new Firefox (newer Geckos)
are somewhere in between. Possibly playing with the number and pixels in
the image and being a little asymmetrical in the vertical placement can
get a better looking results.

In IE 6 and Opera 9, the thin line is superimposed above the fat line,
giving the impression of just one line.

This may be font-dependant though.

I bet it is!