<p><a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/bbc-not-in-bed-with-bill-gates-over-iplayer?articleid=36522951">BBC Director Of Technology says only 400-600 UK Linux users access BBC website</a></p> <lj-poll-1080999> <p>(...recalling that only the LJ-using subset of the population will be able to answer this, so better scale up the results a bit.)</p> polls, links poll A poll about food preferences <lj-poll-1081210> nonsense, polls poll Wrong number <lj-poll-1083179> <p>(To clarify I mean the reader's contact information and the reader's attempt to contact someone.)</p> nonsense, polls Relocated <lj-poll-1085714> nonsense, polls poll DVD rental Recommend (or otherwise) a DVD subscription service? life 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint <p>This monospaced font appears to be, er, not monospaced:</p> <lj-cut text="Big image"> <p><a href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/wonky-monospace-ff.png"><img src="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/wonky-monospace-ff.png" width=1010 height=1116 style="border-width:1;border-style:solid;border-color:white"></a></p> </lj-cut> <p>(Firefox 2.0.0.9 on my Mac configured to use "Courier 16" as its monospace font. Safari doesn't display the same misalignment even when similarly configured.)</p> geek parrot Felicitous spam subject line truncation <lj-cut text="Implied rudeness"> <p><a href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/penmightier.png"><img src="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/penmightier.png" style="border-style:none"></a></p> </lj-cut> nonsense Free speech <lj-poll-1095097> <p>You can probably form your own list of views you hold to be odious but it ought to be fairly obvious which ones I'm thinking of.</p> polls, politics, xenophobic riff-raff More Firefox font rendering bugs <lj-cut text="Combining characters this time"> <p><a href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/cc.html">http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/cc.html</a> in Linux Firefox:</p> <p><a href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/ffcc.png"><img src="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/ffcc.png" style="border-style:none"></a></p> <p>Windows Firefox is not really any better:</p> <p><a href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/wffcc.png"><img src="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/wffcc.png" style="border-style:none"></a></p> <p>IE7 gets it right:</p> <p><a href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/iecc.png"><img src="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/iecc.png" style="border-style:none"></a></p> <p>Konqueror doesn't even try:</p> <p><a href="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/kcc.png"><img src="http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/junk/kcc.png" style="border-style:none"></a></p> <p>I don't have Safari to hand right now.</p> <p>I guess for best results send precomposed characters to the browser, and put up with bad rendering where none are available l-(</p> <p>(These are the Firefox and Konqueror from Debian etch.)</p> </lj-cut> geek geek