Re: FAQs: What to do?
From Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net>
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· 6 Apr 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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CJRandall wrote: > > [][ hi ... ok ... i guess i must be missing the point here ... > > i thought that the FAQ document _was_ pre-formatted text ? > No, the FAQ document is information in the form of text, with a couple of small ascii illustrations. The text should be presented as "normal text", i.e. mostly in <p> tags. The ascii illustrations should be presented as preformatted text, in <pre> tags. To put the entire thing in one huge <pre> block is a bad idea since it doesn't make "optimal", or even "good", use of the html format. > the markup i suggested is to help Ie3 display *.txt files correctly .. > i don't have Ns2 so i can't see what that does > IE3 is broken if it tries to "interpret" html tags that happen to appear in txt files. > Ns3,Ns4 and Ie4 (approx. 80% web users) don't have any problems with it > ... also Lynx 2.8 works ok without markup > You are talking about plain-text files. I am talking about html documents. These are two different things. > however ... i shall be interested to see your version of the FAQ to > teach me some good lessons in proper html coding (FAQ:3.0.0.vk) > Try http://www.w3.org/ -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
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