Re: Ascii-art in HTML

+------ Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine (dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk) wrote: ---
| In article <4rigs4$ed...@olorin.nask.pl>, "Gl. Insp. Ochrony Srodowiska"
| <gio...@news.nask.pl> writes
| >Have you any sugestion how put ascii art to ALT section in IMG tag?
| >
| >I don't want answer like:
| ><IMG SRC="smile.gif" ALT=":-)"> 
| >It's trivial._____________/
| >                               
| >I want to put someting like  
| >     __
| >   _7 |>
| >  | _  |
| >     \ \______,
| >     /    __  ;
| >     \  _/  \ )
| >     | /     |l
| >    /_l     /_l
|
| I don't think it can be done.  The broswer treats text inside 
| an alt="......" as ordinary text for typesetting i.e. (CR)s
| are stripped out from the input, and places it in 
| one long horizontal box.  <pre>...<\pre> has no effect
| on this process.
|
| Logically you would hope there is something like "\n" for
| inserting end-of-line into a string.  If there is,
| then it's not "\n".   Try alt.html !!!  


I have this same complaint of Netscape.  On my web pages I include 
ascii-art as alternatives for many of the images.  This looks great using 
a text mode browser such as LYNX but looks terrible using Netscape.

The best example of this 
on my pages is at:  http://nunic.nu.edu/~dissel/mini.html

I don't think it is possible to set this up properly for viewing in 
Netscape.  Even version 2.0 does not view the alternatives properly.

Have a great day,
Dave.
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