Fractions Behaving Badly in Browsers

Why do fonts behave so strangely in the various web browsers?

Witness this HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">
<table>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#x00bc;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#x00bd;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#x00be;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8531;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8532;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8533;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8534;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8535;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8536;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8537;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8538;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8539;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8540;</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>&#8541;</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Notice how the different glyphs seem to be in different typefaces and
do not respond to styling via CSS. Why does this happen? It's been
driving me insane!!!

Is there a solution?

.

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