Yippee!! I think I'm getting closer (was "Re: Woe!Woe! and thrice Woe!")

llizard writes
>
>> there is one other thing to consider and that is if your picture
>> contains the character sequence </
>> then replace the < char with &lt;

yep .. this means : if the char sequence </ occurs without being
part of a valid HTML tag
nothing else should need encoding

>
>I tried to add another frame and do not understand the Javascript error
>message on line 33:
>http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/ascii-animation/timer_testvs1.html
>
see below...

>(I finally found out how to see the errors. I have to type "javascript:"
>into the location window. I made the mistake earlier of leaving out the
>colon.)

oh wow! ... so now i know :)  ... ace!

>
>Do I also have to encode + signs?  &#043;
nope


>I am getting inexplicable errors on another one that is still on my desk
>top. It seems to choke when I put in the style colour codes....

hmmm... yes ... it appears to be something to do with
cascading style blocks
and yet all you've done is to duplicate "t5" to "t6"

i have noticed problems like this before when trying to use
style attributes in HTML tags ... especially with javascript
they don't always respond the way one would think

what i have done is to move the style attributes to a <style> block
in the <head> with #id identifiers
so that they are defined before rendering the <div> blocks

//--></SCRIPT>
<style type="text/css">
#s1 { background-color:#FFF6E9; color:#ff0000 }
</style>
</HEAD>

... and ...

<div id="t5">
<pre>
     _---_ 
   /   <span id="s1">0</span>   \\     <b id="s1">|\ | | | /` |</b>
  / 5  | 55 \\    <b id="s1">|/ | |\| \] .</b>

generally i just use the <font color=...> tag
altho' Meph uses the style shown above because it reduces
the overall file size
in this particular case the background colour is no different from the
existing body background colour but when using Ns4.5 it doesn't produce
the same colour ... odd!
if the background-color attribute is omitted it appears for me the way
i think you intended

>
>Thanks for the explanation of the style position coding. I actually
>understood it for the animation itself. What I haven't got a handle on
>is how to position the text on rest of the page (titles, links, etc). I
>did it rather inelegantly with line breaks so that the links at the
>bottom of the page wouldn't overlap the animation. 

yep ... this is so ... i generally use the <pre> tag as a spacer
eg:
<pre><font color=same_as_background_colour>
.
. this is a spacer
.
</font></pre>

the animation <div> blocks become detached from the page when
style positioners are applied causing them to be like transparent
overlays

i hope this is all clearer than mud  :)

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see yuz
colin
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