oh, my. that third line is horrendous. that’s what happens when the software (in this case, lemmy’s md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser. trying to underline using unicode… and failing, instead of just using css.
Oh man, I just checked what it looks like in Firefox:
I had written that comment in the Jerboa app (and fiddled with it to make it look reasonable):
when the software (in this case, lemmy’s md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser.
And nope, in this case I added the Unicode for the underline myself. Well, I used this app. That passes straight through the MD→HTML conversion without being touched.
And it actually is rendered by the browser, but yeah, by the browser’s Unicode+font rendering, not the CSS engine. Or in case of Jerboa, by Android’s Unicode+font rendering.
Would certainly be nice, if these would look the same. 🫠
Yeah, it’s just your usual buttons:
oh, my. that third line is horrendous. that’s what happens when the software (in this case, lemmy’s md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser. trying to underline using unicode… and failing, instead of just using css.
Oh man, I just checked what it looks like in Firefox:
I had written that comment in the Jerboa app (and fiddled with it to make it look reasonable):
And nope, in this case I added the Unicode for the underline myself. Well, I used this app. That passes straight through the MD→HTML conversion without being touched.
And it actually is rendered by the browser, but yeah, by the browser’s Unicode+font rendering, not the CSS engine. Or in case of Jerboa, by Android’s Unicode+font rendering.
Would certainly be nice, if these would look the same. 🫠
Truly a cursed way to underline a word, is there no better way to do it on Lemmy?
Lemmy uses Markdown for storing/displaying comments, specifically the CommonMark flavor with some extensions, as documented here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html
And yeah, no, that doesn’t have a way to underline,
except
maybe
one
of
these
here,
depending on the Markdown implementation in the client. Some clients might also choose to underline the highlighting, that’s normally 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤.
Links may be underlined as well.
Well, and then you’ve also got this thing, which is certainly a line under this text:
On Lemmy, we also got
strikethrough. Priorities, I guess. 🙃But yeah, no proper, consistent underlining in Markdown/Lemmy. 🥴