Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?

In article <353...@news.vossnet.net>, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz
(Martin Atkins) wrote:
> 
> I`ve been experimenting with ways to display the asciis on my websites, and I think the <PLAINTEXT>
> tag works really well, It means you can have an HTML with the equivilant of a text file at the end,
> no markup and no &lt; and &gt; required.
> 
> I was wondering if there are any browsers where this doesn`t work?
> 
> I`ve attached an example, but outlook express and whatnot may interpret it as the message which
> could be quite annoying (I`ve havd it happen to me before when I was emailed an HTML file - MSIE3
> mail thought the HTML file was a rich email message! :)
> 
> Can you let me know how well this works in Lynx especially, since this was the browser that has
> most problems with the asciis in my gallery right now (which, incidentally, I will update soon
> I promise!)
>             _______
>    / |    |    |     |\   /|  |      \
>   /  |    |    |     | \ / |  |       \
>  <   |----|    |     |  V  |  |        >
>   \  |    |    |     |     |  |       /
>    \ |    |    |     |     |  |_____ /
> (I hate the way Vs are done in the FixedSys font!)
> 
[snip]
> |_|     |_| |_|_ _|_| |_|         |_|_ _  |_| |_|   | | o o ||mart.atkins|
> |_| _ _ |_|   |_|_|_| |_|       _   |_|_| |_| |_|   | |  >  ||     @     |
> : _|_|_|_   _|_|_ _  |_|  _    |_|  _ _ _       _ _ _ | \_/ ||bigfoot.com|
[snip]
> :        http://vibes.vossnet.co.uk/i/ighaig/        | |MGA| |           :
> :   http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/ascii.htm   | |   | |           :
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It seems to be working in Lynx (I'm amazed) but you might want to add an
alt tag to the images you use for your links. For instance, on the teen
page, the image "index" appears as "link" in Lynx.

How annoying for me that the plaintext tag seems to work for you. I
spent hours changing all of my < to &#60; etc, etc,


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