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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Apr 1999.
Re: FAQs: What to do?

Re: FAQs: What to do?

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/


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