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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 Feb 1998.
Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art

Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art

On Sun, 8 Feb 1998 16:42:34 -0500, jor...@mcs.com (Jorn Barger) wrote:

>Lennert Stock <lst...@lstock.demon.nl> wrote:
>> In the long term theoretical kind of way the W3C excels in, what would
>> perhaps be interesting is the CSS solution. Define a class for visual
>> clients, e.g. 'asciiartclass', then <SPAN> the ASCII art with it.
>
>It should be set up so "ALT" text for images can be an ascii version!

Interesting ;) It would be a nice LOWSRC too.

>I have little respect for W3C-- eg their mistaken preference for "EM"
>instead of "I"...

Hey, I like <EM>..

-- 
Lennert Stock
lst...@lstock.demon.nl
ASCII Art Hideout!
http://www.lstock.demon.nl/aas.html

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