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Moin,
On Monday 10 January 2005 09:47, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Thomas Gries wrote:
Dear Gerard,
your wrote
The current "external.png" implementation is horribly broken in languages that are right to left like Farsi, Hebrew, Arabic. So let's create a "pdf icon" only when the implementation of the external.png is fixed. Let's not add more garbage in a manner that we know is broken.
however, it doesn't matter, where that icon actually is (left or right -- this can be programmable, dependent on the direction of writing).
My point is, do we want this or not ?
Tom
My point is that I do not want something that is broken. Forward portability is nonsense when it breaks things. So Firefox and Mozilla NEED to be on the list of browsers that should not show it.
As a left-to-right firefox user, I like the little external icon (and a .pdf one would be nice, although I don't think I have seen a PDF link yet), thankyouverymuch.
If you can fix the icons for right-to-left or other borken browsers, fine. This is, however, independend on whether PDF should have an icon or not.
Maybe the broken-browser-dont-show-icons code needs to be adjusted, or a user setting ("Disable link icons") needs to be added.
Best wishes,
Tels
The code should automagically decide on being right OR left depending on the language. As to do we want it. I do not want it as long as there is no audience for it. (No IE no Firefox/Mozilla for whom are you doing this ??)
PS there is a Firefox bug report about this one.
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