Re: About rendering ascii code in a .txt medium

> Yes, HTML (<PRE></PRE> in particular) can be used to tell HTML-readers
> not to mess with ASCII art. Note that the FONT tag, used to specify
> typeface, color, and size, is `deprecated' in HTML 4.0. To explain in a
> buzzword-free fashion, that means that the tag is on its way to becoming
> obsolete in a few years.

Curious..as I don't know much beyond HTML 1.0 or so -- what are they
intending to replace the FONT specification with?  All these years using
Lynx has got me a little 'behind'  :-)

> > Haha, this is like expecting color prints from a black and white
> > printer! Of course, one does not have to be that stupid! Use a font
> > that is available on all platforms, that's a little bit smarter!

(To Pete Casso here) Watch it Pete - I've seen a B&W printer reproduce very
nice color images (in color of course)..  separate color-specific ribbons
are useful for that ;-)

> Yes, Pete, I am fighting for the future. In this case, I am unashamedly
> a member of the anti-HTML-in-e-mail-or-Usenet brigade, because I
> recognize the waste of time and bandwidth that HTML represents in these
> media.

I also dislike the use of HTML for EMail and News - It would, however, be
nice if there were some sort of standard to specify things such as color,
underline, and other attributes, that works in all Email and News.  Alas,
there isn't, so this debate will probably continue to eternity :-/

> ... Well, Pete, on the subject of whether or not `art form' and `medium'
> mean much the same thing, either Webster's dictionary is right, or you
> are. I'm siding with Webster on this one.

I've always had it figured that ASCII art is only ASCII art when it exists
as a text file with only 7 or 8-bit characters (from a standard character
set like ISO 8859-1).  It becomes an image when it's converted to GIF or
another graphic format.

(IOW, I disagree with Pete here :-)

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