Re: Netly News article

Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote --

> More specifically, we will be able to post ascii pics on aaa and display
> them on our monitor in the usual way for at least several years,
> although the frequency of "my pics look all scrambled" questions will
> continuously increase, to the point that it will be more practical to
> post ascii pics in html (i.e. at that point, there will be more people
> seeing the ascii pic correctly in the html medium than in a text editor
> medium. This is caused by html having display instructions in the form
> of tags, and by text editors built into email and newsgroup software
> that are increasingly adopting proportional fonts as their defaults.)

You seem to expect that the option to use a monospaced font will be taken
away from us, and you seem resigned to this. This makes Bill smile.

If it doesn't work in plaintext, it won't work in HTML, unless we all use
the SAME proportional font. Again, Bill would like nothing better.

ASCII art and HTML art are both subsets of character graphics. Character
graphics predate computers by a long shot. There is no reason they cannot
coexist. HTML art is fine, and I wish you the best, but no matter how long
HTML art survives, it will not outlast ASCII art. No way.

Dan Strychalski                  dski at cameonet, cameo, com, tw (no _x_)
Apologies for the anti-spam devices and non-threading newsreader.

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