Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art

Jorn Barger wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > I definitely don't see why it
> > should be avoided on the internet, since it is "lean" and compatible
> > even with the oldest/simplest computers.
> 
> YES!
> 
> It might be a good time to mention the <PRE><IMG ALT={}></PRE> trick--
> some browsers will display ascii-art-as-alt okay if it's put there where
> I have "[]".
> 

Have you seen what the latest version of netscape does to that?!  :(

If I was a newbie and found that sort of thing on a page I would think
that the author was mad and move out of there quickly...  :(

Here's an example:

http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/pics/rubbish/alt/

I made this for a similar discussion in another newsgroup and it
contains two versions of the same situation, the one I used to have on
one of my pages is duplicated in "pre.html". It is the situation you
describe. The other example is the way I do it today, with a link from
the image to the ascii version. That second example is the file called
"link.html".

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