Talk: WWW text
From Richard Coleman SS92 <rco...@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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· 16 Mar 1995 21:12 · View full thread
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In article <3k092c$g...@gagme.wwa.com>, is9...@brunel.ac.uk (DR J) writes: > > Bob Allison (bob...@wwa.com) wrote: > : >Here are a couple of suggestions: > : > > : >[<-] back > : >[->] next > : Remember that characters like < and > are used in the invisible command > : structure on the Web, and you must escape them to make them appear > : without screwing things up. > AArrggh! I spotted that after I posted the article! Thanks for pointing > it out!!! Funnily enough, Lynx doesn't translate 'Escape characters'. > It faithfully displays the < and > characters, it's the graphical > browsers that try to translate them. > Hmmmmm. Well, after extensive research, it would seem that you can get > away with using the < character, but NOT the > character. > Perhaps these two arrows could be a start : > [ -={ ] Back > [ }=- ] Next What about a nice simple [BACK] [NEXT] system. This is simple and unambiguous. > > It would seem that this WWW text is trickier than I thought! > DR J /--\___/--\ _____ Richard G.Coleman |"Our computers don't \/\ O o /\/ ___/ Bark\ Computer Science | run on electricity ( o ) \ Bark/ Strathclyde University | but on magic smoke, -----U------------------------------------------|when the smoke leaves Also of that unknown band from Ayr "Baked Alaska"| the computer, it email me at: rco...@cs.strath.ac.uk | stops working."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d41266dc9ac0383e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,d41266dc9ac0383e X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-Thread: 110f55,73186cded7846174 X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-16 13:12:57 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!stern.fokus.gmd.de!ceres.fokus.gmd.de!zib-berlin.de!news.cs.uni-magdeburg.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.dfn.de!darwin.sura.net!news.lsu.edu!willis.cis.uab.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: Richard Coleman SS92 <rco...@cs.strath.ac.uk> Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Talk: WWW text Date: 16 Mar 1995 15:12:57 -0600 Organization: Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Lines: 48 Sender: bob...@gagme.wwa.com Approved: bob...@wwa.com Message-ID: <3ka9kp$en...@gagme.wwa.com> References: <3jomee$1b...@gagme.wwa.com> <3jon7d$2n...@gagme.wwa.com> <3k092c$g...@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: nntp.gmd.de rec.arts.ascii:4512 alt.ascii-art:21614
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