Re: Half Space Technique for html art

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> 
> Pete Casso (pet...@sympatico.ca) wrote:
> : However, the following _html_ technique allows one to position monospace
> : font in half space locations. The heart of the idea is that all web
> : browsers are able to center the display of a line of text. The basic
> : html coding technique will be explained by way of example, using the
> : html tags <PRE>, <CENTER>, and <TT>, see the html code snippet below.
> 
> Doesn't work in Lynx, nor will it work in any browser that parses HTML
> like the standard says you should. You just can't put <CENTER> inside
> <PRE> and call it valid HTML. Different browsers will try to make sense
> of it differently, and the sensible thing Lynx does is to assume that
> you meant the <CENTER> to go _after_ the <PRE> block but forgot the end
> tag. So not only is the effect lost (what do you expect from a character
> cell browser) but the the pictures are all smashed into ASCII soup.
> 
> Now if the <CENTER> was outside the <PRE>, it might just work, but I
> wouldn't count on it. Style sheets would do it nicely, of course, but
> I don't suppose many browsers support them that well yet. :-(

I can't speak for all browsers but <center> outside of <pre> does work
and quite good in Netscape-all and IE-most.

Donovan


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