Re: Half Space Technique for html art

Ojoshiro wrote in message <354...@earthling.net>...
>Pete Casso wrote:
>> Well, if you declare adding half spaces a "cheat" then by the same
>> token, you must declare adding monospace fonts to the ascii standard,
>> and therefore pretty well all ascii art postings on this newsgroup a
>> "cheat" as well.
>
>There is no half spaces in a monospaced font...
>Allow half spaces means allowing font sizes,italics, bolds and the
>entire
>bag op typographic trash...

Ojoshiro--his point there was that there are no monospaced fonts in the
ascii standard.  All the ascii standard does is define character.  It is a
/convention/ on this group that we use monospaced font because proportional
fonts vary on different computers and in different sizes.  Nothing in the
ascii standard requires monospaceds--only the ascii-art 'standard'.

>> More topically speaking, a standard is typically used by its user
>> community both for its utilitarian value *and* as a platform to innovate
>> on. In case of the ascii standard, the user community has innovated and
>> added monospace fonts, colours, half spaces ...
>
>There is no halfspace character in the ASCII-table...
>There is no color in the ASCII-table...
>Look dude, ASCII is a defined characterset...each char corresponds with
>a number.  7 bit, so... 128 different chars.

Exactly his point.. he says we've 'added' such things.  Not to ASCII, but to
ASCII-art.

There is use of color (on webpages), halfspaces (among some), monospaced
fonts (here, but not, say, on AOL), javascript animations (on
webpages--Javascript isn't ASCII either).

>> Trying to deny the role of a standard as a foundation for further
>> development amounts to self-limiting behaviour (such as those driven by
>> jealousy), either as an individual or as a group, that will eventually
>> fail to stop progress from happening anyway.
>
>Communication is based on standardized codes... If you use your own
>standard for everything, don't matter how advanced or developed you
>may be. You cannot communicate, and your knowledge will die with you.

Harsh words for pictures made of keyboard characters..

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