Re: Using the Unicode ellipsis (…) instead of three periods

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com>]

On 4 December 2012 09:21, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> Is this really the right thing to do. Even the Microsoft page
> uses the rather wishy-washy "Consider using the ratio symbol",
> as if they're not quite sure this is a good idea. It does look
> nicer, but it's semantically wrong. A time is not a ratio. How
> does Orca read it?

Colon: http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=230039
Ratio: http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=230150

The biggest difference I see is that the colon sits on the baseline
while the ratio is nicely centered.

I like how Android 4.2 appears to use both styles: http://i.imgur.com/y2zVX.png

Jeremy