Re: some ascii of mine
From Veronica Karlsson <asc...@hotmail.com>
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· 21 Nov 2000 07:39 · View full thread
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Peter Punk wrote: > Veronica Karlsson provoked the following text: > > Some unknown person wrote: > > > 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): <snip> > > All of these URLs look perfectly correct to me in both IE 5.5 and NS 4.7 > I think you better check your settings in NS. My settings? OK Edit -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts +--- Fonts and Encodings ---------------------------------------+ | | | For the Encoding: Western (iso-8859-1) | | Variable Width Font: Helvetica (Adobe) Size: 12.0 | | [ ] Allow scaling ____ | | Fixed Width Font: Fixed (Misc) Size: 14.0 | | [ ] Allow scaling ____ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sometimes a document will provide its own fonts. | | < > Use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts | | < > Use document-specified fonts, but disable Dynamic Fonts | | <*> Use document-specified fonts, including Dynamic Fonts | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Looks OK to me. > >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 > > That's just a matter of width, resize your browser or work in a higher > resolution. That should not be necessary. -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
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