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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Nov 2000.
Re: some ascii of mine

Re: some ascii of mine

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.


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