Talk: ASCII art on web pages

In article <3vvum1$5g...@news.wwa.com>,
B.D.S.McConnell <mcc...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>Hello ...
>
>Bob Allison writes:   
>
>>      ... you can use ASCII art in ALT tags, so that people 
>>      using text based can see an ASCII pic where people using 
>>      graphical browsers see a GIF.
>
>I still don't see that this works, if the Art is multi-line.  After 
>seeing this Post, I browsed BOBAWORLD again (with Image Auto-Loading off);  
>once again, each intended multi-line ALT appeared as a single, LONG, Line
>of Text.  
>
>Am I the only one that has this trouble?  Could it be that my Browser 
>(Netscape 1.1N) isn't quite capable of imitating a Text-Based one?  

   I have not yet figured out how to make it work for some browsers.  If 
you browse with Lynx, you will indeed see ASCII art in place of GIFs.


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>    __~(_ \  / _)~__                                  __~(_ \  / _)~__
>  ~(_ \ _) )( (_ / _)~                              ~(_ \ _) )( (_ / _)~
>  __ ) ).--..--.( ( __                              __ ) ).--..--.( ( __
>~(_ \_(._.-..-._.)_/ _)~ HAVE  A  PETRIFIED  DAY! ~(_ \_(._.-..-._.)_/ _)~
>  _`._`._.-..-._.'_.'B.D.S.McConnell  UW Dept of Math`._`._.-..-._.'_.'_
>~(_ \_:' <>  <> `:_/ _)mcc...@math.washington.edu(_ \_:' <>  <> `:_/ _)~
>   `._.'         http://www.math.washington.edu/~mcconnel/        `._.'
>  ~(_`-(\_`--'_/)-'_)~                              ~(_`-(\_`--'_/)-'_)~
>    ~(_`- )  ( -'_)~                                  ~(_`- )  ( -'_)~
>       `-'    `-'                                        `-'    `-'

   Nice sig.

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