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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 10 Apr 1999.
Re: FAQs: What to do?

Re: FAQs: What to do?

Veronica Karlsson writes
>CJRandall wrote:
>> 
>> [][ hi ... ok ... i guess i must be missing the point here ...
>> 
>> i thought that the FAQ document _was_ pre-formatted text ?
>> 
>
>No, the FAQ document is information in the form of text, with a couple
[snip]
> ,. To put the entire thing
>in one huge <pre> block is a bad idea since it doesn't make "optimal",
>or even "good", use of the html format.

alas ... i disagree

>IE3 is broken if it tries to "interpret" html tags that happen to appear
>in txt files.

this is true

>
>> Ns3,Ns4 and Ie4 (approx. 80% web users) don't have any problems with it
>> ... also Lynx 2.8 works ok without markup
>> 
>You are talking about plain-text files. I am talking about html
>documents. These are two different things.

it is clear to me that we are talking at cross purposes

>
>> however ... i shall be interested to see your version of the FAQ to
>> teach me some good lessons in proper html coding (FAQ:3.0.0.vk)
>> 
>
>Try  http://www.w3.org/
>
yep ... a mine of information

>
this is the last post i shall make to this thread ... having said my
piece and not wishing to make an argument

fact of life:-
>> ARGUMENTS:
>>  A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says
>>  after that is the beginning of a new argument.
>>

[][ see yuz
[][ colin
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