Why is CSS3 furigana called ruby?

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Why is CSS3 furigana called ruby?

2011/7/26 03:25

http://standardista.com/forms/oscon/part3.html#slide17

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Why is CSS3 furigana (phonetic helper characters above kanji) called "ruby"?

by Shimada Jiei

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2011/7/26 10:18

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character#History

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2011/7/26 10:46

Dang, that was fast! Thanks, Yellow Smurf!

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