Re: [REQ] Z-art-further req

Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> 
> ekv...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> > Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > > Yes, something has gone very wrong with your page!  :(
> >
> > It's designed to work with resolutions down to 640x480,
> 
> So is my page. It works well in both 640x480 and 1280x1024, and
> hopefully it works acceptably in anything between and beyond those
> values.
> 
> And your page does NOT work in a small window, with that HUGE logo at
> the top...

> > That's the problem with web design, you just can't please everyone.
> 
> Actually, yes, you can. The trick is to avoid overspecifying stuff...
> For ascii art, just use <pre> (plus &amp; and &lt; of course) and let
> the reader's browser do the rest.
> 
> > And I didn't think that it looked that bad on the screenshots
> > you provided (except that the fonts on the random ascii art script didn't
> > work on your system.)
> 
> You used a proportional font for ascii art. Read the FAQ to figure out
> why that doesn't work:

I know that....five years in the ascii art business I should know by
know :P
fact is, I didn't!
To make the script work, I couldn't use the PRE tag. (technical
limitations in Java Script...)
I had to use a font tag instead.
The font tag works the way that if you don't have the first font it
suggests, it looks for the next one, if you don't have that it goes to
the next one and so on. (I've also done HTML since 1993 and have my own
webdesign business, so I know my stuff). Obviously you don't have any of
the fonts it suggests. (Preformatted fonts as Monaco, Courier and so
on.)
Check the HTML and see for yourself...

> > Also the preformatted font in your browser were
> > on the other hand extremely big :)
> >
> 
> No, it was what I had set to be NORMAL size!


> For preformatted text (including ascii art and posts to newsgroups)
> there is a general rule that says that most people _should_ be able to
> handle "70-80 characters wide". Anything over that is too much. Please
> note that this has nothing to do with "font size" (from the point of
> view of the web page author).

72 characters is the normal width of mail and news postings, I'm fully
aware of this.

> Your logo is 96 characters wide. My browser showed a width of 75
> characters.

The logo is in <PRE> tag...it works fine, just fitting in PCs with
800x600 and macs with 640x480. I've tried it with 17 machines, all
looking good.