Re: tapdance - new Javascript ASCII-animation

miK writes
>llizard wrote:
>
>[emergency snip]
>
>>I have changed my template to remove any reference to /r/n that was in
>>there before. (It was an earlier version of MSIE that caused us to even
>>add the extra /r in the first place.)
>
>Oops! I didn't know you had changed the code (haven't read the last
>part of the thread "Advanced Ascii Animation - NEW [1/1]") :((
>
>First the good news: Your modified script _does_ work in MSIE4 on
>Windows95 (that's the platform I used to watch your tapdance).
>The bad news is it's no good in MSIE4 on a Mac! Boxes instead
>of line breaks.
>
>Felt pretty bad about handing over false information. So with
>the device "Thou shalt not extrapolate!" in mind, I ran the 4
>possible scripts -- using \n, \r, \n\r and \r\n (not /r/n!!) --
>on the 3 OS'es that I have at my disposal, and drew a 
>conclusion, just based on "trial & error". =)
>
>Here are the results:
>                     \n   \r  \n\r   \r\n
>msie4.0   (windows)   +    +   - 3)   +
>  ns4.04  (windows)   +    +   - 3)   +
>msie4.01  (mac)       - 1) +   - 2)   +
>  ns4.5   (mac)       +    +   - 3)   +
>  ns4.05  (linux)     +    +   - 3)   +
>
>sidenotes 1) no line breaks
>          2) boxes
>          3) extra blank lines
>
>It's either \r or \r\n I guess. But \n isn't that bad.
>
>~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o
>
>About the remarks made by Matthew Thomas and Martin Atkins...
>
>Matthew -- using ns4.5 (mac) -- noticed extra blank lines. I didn't.
>...?? No offence, llizard, but did you by accident put in \n\r
>instead of \r\n?
>
>
>Martin suspected the problems had something to do with the different
>ways dos/windows, un*x/linux and mac treat the end of a line. He made
[snip]
>
>Was that the reason? But we couldn't even find a way to adjust a
>fixed-width font to the anims in MSIE3...
>
>[snip]
>>      / ,^^%--- ha    EVENTUALLY, I'll upgrade past NS3....
>
> :) --mic

[][ hi yuz ... wow ... look at this ... not just me talking to myself :)

i haven't had _any_ problems with extra line-spaces with any of the
 browsers i've got ... and i especially did try them online too ..
all of your anims have worked fine for me ... altho' i don't have a mac

i like the idea of defining the end-of-line as a variable ...
var  a = "\r\n"
since it reduces the number of bytes in the anim strings making
the overall size smaller thus reducing loading time
 ... also .. if later it is required to change the end-of-line format
only one small change is needed

... the tap-dancer even worked fine on my old 486dx2 Win3.1 with IE3.01
in 'fixedsys' too!  (IE3.01.2723 with: JSCRPT16.DLL 194.736 Kb 19-03-97)
but with \r\n and didn't work too well with just \r ... i got one
continuous line wrapped in the textarea dancing about
(i guess i'll adopt mic's code for mac line-terminators)
...
a WinNT box at work with IE3.02 uses a proportional font! eek!

[mic] if your reading this ... i half expected to see your glorious
      'Bewegend ASCII-logo' animation too ... oh well ... glad you've
      got your server sorted now anyway

[][ see yuz all
[][ colin
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