Re: some ascii of mine

Peter Punk wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > Somebody else whose name has been snipped wrote:
> > > 74 chars is the maximum width the most newsreader will accept
> > > without wrapping. If you still wish to show us pics with a
> > > greater width, it's best to make it a HTML page and put it
> > > up on your homepagespace.
> >
> > It doesn't have to be HTML. Plain-text will do just fine.   :)
> 
> But then you will have to trust that plain text is displayed in a
> fixed-width font in all browsers. And i don't trust all browsers.

My experience is the opposite. I often see ascii art html pages that
show up in a proportional font, but I've never had a problem with
plain-text.

Here are some examples (from Joan's list, under "personal exhibits",
first the page URL, then the URL of a screen shot from it):

http://users.breworld.net/m/martin.atkins/asciiart/
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional1.gif

http://www.geocities.com/theshedragon/
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional2.gif

http://home9.inet.tele.dk/jez/
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional3.gif

http://www.gtcom.net/~krogg/ascii/
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional4.gif

http://www.angelfire.com/mn/Maija/asciiart.html
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional5.gif

Going through that list I stumbled on another interesting phenomenon:

http://209.220.139.116/tooshy/indexts.html
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/what_happened_here.gif


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