Re: Work in progress: ASCII art FAQ 3.0.-1
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:39:31 -0500, llizard (lli...@iNOdirect.ca) wrote: : Things look fine to me so far. I have only one minor point (an html : issue). I recently found out that for linking to a newsgroup, one must : include the two slashes after the colon. : <A HREF="news://alt.ascii-art">alt.ascii-art</a> AAGH! That's definitely not a valid URL! The slashes are (in general) only used for services like HTTP and FTP that allow directory paths. : I think your decision to avoid CSS like the plague is a wise one. (It's : a selfish reason; I still happily use Netscape 3, which does not support : CSS and makes pages that use it look not even remotely like the creator : has intended.) Hmmph. That's because a determined person can make a mess of anything, even CSS. By definition anything that *requires* CSS to be usable is abusing CSS. See http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/dependence.html -- Ilmari Karonen (ilt...@sci.fi) | Was at a bookstore today, [snip] and noticed http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ | "Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 for Dummies" Will fix broken HTML for food | . . . and thought "Yes". -- Jeff Vinocur
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,fdb5010d10926328 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen) Subject: Re: Work in progress: ASCII art FAQ 3.0.-1 Date: 1999/03/28 Message-ID: <7dlkk7$56p$2...@tron.sci.fi>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 460031973 Distribution: world References: <36F...@spamfree.land> <36F...@mpq.mpg.de> <36F...@iNOdirect.ca> Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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