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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art.animation, 3 Mar 1998.
Re: have you had this dumb situation?

Re: have you had this dumb situation?

In article <34F...@on.spammer>, Veronica Karlsson
<dre...@on.spammer> wrote:
> 
> Warren Steel wrote:
> > Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > > Warren Steel wrote:
> > > > I'm a very frequent Web user, but
> > > > every time I've been persuaded to enable Javascript,
> > > > I've regretted it.
> > >
> > > Ooh, that is sad. Take a look at this site:
> > > http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/
> > > it contains a number of javascript ascii animations. Maybe they will
> > > help you to feel better about the situation, (ok, I'm no fan of
> > > javascript either, but it's not 100% Bad as you seem to say).
> >
> >      Cool.  You isolated the js animations from the main
> > page, and gave instructions and disclaimers, and kept only
> > one animation per page.  I viewed most of them in Opera 3.2b2,
> > and the vast majority worked without a hitch!  One showed a
> > blank screen area, and one (the piano player) first produced
> > an "internal communications error."  The second time I tried
> > it, it crashed the browser...
> >
> 
> So you didn't regret it this time?  :)
> 
> [I crosspost this to news:alt.ascii-art.animation so that the people
> there can read about the successful (?) attempt to view them in Opera,
> especially llizard, the owner of that page and the maker of those
> animations]

Excuse my intrusion into a newsgroup I have no business being in.
 
How thrilling to hear that the Javascript animations work in Opera
(something I have never even heard of! -no surprise; I'm frighteningly
ignorant --see? I told you I had no business here). I hope that the
piano player is working now. (I had inadvertantly removed one of the
lines in one frame when I was fixing something else)

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/pianist2.htm#top


I have also (I hope) removed the irritating Geocities popups by which
you may have been tormented.



NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent";
its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
--
llizard aka ejm                                        ,^
cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca            ===%^^^^^^^^^^^^
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/         "    "

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Subject: Re: have you had this dumb situation?
Date: 1998/03/03
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