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What happened to b'ger's picture!?
Martin Harper Started conversation Sep 27, 2002
Hang on - didn't the pic by b'ger use to be a rather good-looking pair of statues? What have the BBC done?? 
What happened to b'ger's picture!?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 27, 2002
The Mona Lisa's gone a bit Dali-esque as well... Something's stripped all the nice monospaced Courier fonts out of the article.
They may have used a stylesheet definition which has been "forgotten" when the skins were updated...?
What happened to b'ger's picture!?
HenryS Posted Sep 28, 2002
The b'ger picture was always the devil with the lawyer comment - it was actually in his reply to me when I asked him for permission to use his art what with all the copyright stuff in the BBC small print and I decided to use it. 
The fixed width font seems fine to me on IE from here.
What happened to b'ger's picture!?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 28, 2002
I'm on Mozilla, and it's been playing up a little... I'll have a look with a different browser and get back to you. 
What happened to b'ger's picture!?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 28, 2002
Yup, IE looks fine...
What happened to b'ger's picture!?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 28, 2002
...Opera too, although the font is a little "fainter"..
What happened to b'ger's picture!?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 28, 2002
...everything's "squished" in Netscape 4.7...
What happened to b'ger's picture!?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 28, 2002
...also "squished" in Netscape 7.0 PR1.
The Netscape browsers and Mozilla seem to default to "Lucida Console" as the default "fixed-width" font, and it's not really fixed-width. If I override it with Courier New, things look much better...
What happened to b'ger's picture!?
Martin Harper Posted Sep 28, 2002
Ahh - I only saw it in Peer Review, so I musta missed that one...
What happened to b'ger's picture!?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 28, 2002
Nope, I was wrong. The tag still looks wrong in all the Netscape/Mozilla variants. 
Pages whose stylesheet calls for "Monospace" are fine, though... 
(Hint, hint...)
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What happened to b'ger's picture!?
- 1: Martin Harper (Sep 27, 2002)
- 2: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 27, 2002)
- 3: HenryS (Sep 28, 2002)
- 4: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 28, 2002)
- 5: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 28, 2002)
- 6: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 28, 2002)
- 7: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 28, 2002)
- 8: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 28, 2002)
- 9: Martin Harper (Sep 28, 2002)
- 10: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 28, 2002)
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