css question

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Brett Merkey

Suspecting that asterism was being used incorrectly, I looked it up:

A traditional Asterism is a triangle of three stars.

⁂

The

* * *

Is a flat version, because typewriters and about 100 years later computers (and their printers) didn't have the ⁂ symbol.a
Aster means Star. This is an Asterisk *, a star.

Do read what I actually wrote. Some think a Dinkus is a synomyn for a "flat asterism", but it's any simple device that may be a scene break. Also carefully read what you look up!

Many variations of dinkuses are composed partially or entirely of asterisks, although other symbols can be used to achieve the same goals. Some examples include a series of dots, fleurons, asterisms, straight horizontal lines, and various other figures, such as infinity symbols. Esperanto Braille punctuation commonly uses a series of colons, ⠒⠒⠒, as a dinkus.

—Further down the misleading Wikipedia article. References removed.

An ornate dinkus, if suggestive of foliage, is called a Fleuron (French).

The * * * has been accepted as a flat asterism since the 1870s (Commercial Typing Machines in 1874). A typewriter was originally the person whose job was to use a "Typing Machine". Actual typesetting was 400 years older in the west and much earlier in China.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

At least you admit it's your opinion. I think a full width <hr /> is tacky, IMO, a centred 25% wide is better (via CSS).

But the three * * * (a flat asterism) is traditional. The hr line is a web originated thing.

Just because it's always been done a certain way does not mean it's not possible to do it better.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Just because it's always been done a certain way does not mean it's not possible to do it better.

I agree.
I did mention the 25% HR, which I sometimes use.

[rjwse@aol.com]

Seems to work good. Have not tried it on dedicated hardware.