Re: pre and center tags
From RaD Man [ACiD Founder] <rad...@nospam.acid.org>
· alt.ascii-art
· 28 Apr 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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On 26 Apr 1998 18:43:33 GMT, Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> wrote: %Brock Kevin Nambo <new...@earthling.net> wrote: %>Veronica Karlsson wrote in message <354...@on.spammer>... %>>I get the impression that most of the people %>>there regard ascii art as either "obsolete" or "an obstruction of %>>accessibility"... % %>Which is why they recommend showing it in separate text files rather than %>inline. My page uses images of it (I think--haven't touched the thing in %>ages), and text behind for browsers that don't support images, like NEtscape %>and Lynx. (I also put linx in for textonly browsers too, so they can see in %>txt form) % %>>> HTML is not Ascii Art but by continually discussing it here it encourages %>>> others to think that it is Ascii Art. Bah ! Harumph ! %>>> %>> %>>Html source is ascii (or very close to it anyway). % %>HTML should ALWAYS be in ascii. Any extended characters are supposed to be %>represented through character elements like ÿ (named entities) or %>&7855; (unicode entities) although foreign alphabet sets usually ignore this %>and stick to their own native encodings. % %Excuse me, HTML is _NOT_ Ascii Art. This is an Ascii Art newsgroup. Colin, When did you become dictator or moderator of alt.ascii-art? That's what I thought. -r- -- enq...@npvq.bet RaD Man % ACiD Productions Founder % Artpacks Archive Founder Words to live by: " It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons. "
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d3482ad08f1ab34c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: rad...@nospam.acid.org (RaD Man [ACiD Founder]) Subject: Re: pre and center tags Date: 1998/04/28 Message-ID: <354617ea.91093518@205.158.0.30>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 348483671 References: <353...@sympatico.ca> <6hdl7p$ff6$2...@tron.sci.fi> <6he5lc$s7h$1...@news.Leiden.NL.net> <6hf7tr$nvo$2...@tron.sci.fi> <353...@freent.toronto.on.ca> <353...@on.spammer> <353...@freent.toronto.on.ca> <353...@on.spammer> <354...@freent.toronto.on.ca> <354...@on.spammer> <893...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <354...@on.spammer> <unvgOZLc9GA.114@uppubnews03> <893...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> Reply-To: rad...@nospam.acid.org Organization: ACiD Productions (http://www.acid.org) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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