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An example, in English, of boustrophedon as used in inscriptions in ancient Greece (Lines 2 and 4 read right-to-left.) Boustrophedon (/ ˌ b uː s t r ə ˈ f iː d ən / [1]) is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style.
Mozilla Firefox got support for unprefixed writing-mode property in version 38.0, later enabled by default in version 41.0. [13] [14] [15] Starting with Google Chrome version 48 in 2016, the unprefixed writing-mode property is now also supported by Chromium browsers, with the exception of the sideways-lr and sideways-rl values.
Typing "DIR/W" gave the "wide" option to the "DIR" command, so some other method was needed if one actually wanted to run a program called W inside a directory called DIR). Except for COMMAND.COM , all other parts of the operating system accept both characters in a path , but the Microsoft convention remains to use a backslash, and APIs that ...
In computing, quirks mode is an approach used by web browsers to maintain backward compatibility with web pages designed for old web browsers, instead of strictly complying with web standards in standards mode. This behavior has since been codified, so what was previously standards mode is now referred to as simply no quirks mode.
Metal type read backwards, from right to left, and a key skill of the compositor was their ability to read this backwards text. Before computers were invented, and thus becoming computerized (or digital) typesetting, font sizes were changed by replacing the characters with a different size of type.
Backspace key. Backspace (← Backspace, ⌫) is the keyboard key that in typewriters originally pushed the carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems typically moves the display cursor one position backwards, [note 1] deletes the character at that position, and shifts back any text after [note 2] that position by one character.
Vimperator is a discontinued Firefox extension forked from the original Firefox extension version of Conkeror and designed to provide a more efficient user interface for keyboard-fluent users. The design is heavily inspired by the Vim text editor , and the authors try to maintain consistency with it wherever possible.
The capitulum character is obsolete, being replaced by pilcrow, but is included in Unicode for backward compatibility and historic studies. The pilcrow symbol was included in the default hardware codepage 437 of IBM PCs (and all other 8-bit OEM codepages based on this) at code point 20 (0x14), which is an ASCII control character .