Re: tapdance - new Javascript ASCII-animation

CJRandall wrote:

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>[][ hi yuz ... wow ... look at this ... not just me talking to myself :)

=)

>i haven't had _any_ problems with extra line-spaces with any of the
> browsers i've got ... and i especially did try them online too ..
>all of your anims have worked fine for me ... altho' i don't have a mac
>
>i like the idea of defining the end-of-line as a variable ...
>var  a = "\r\n"

I thought you had done that before. Must have "stolen" the idea from
someone else, then. =)

>since it reduces the number of bytes in the anim strings making
>the overall size smaller thus reducing loading time
> ... also .. if later it is required to change the end-of-line format
>only one small change is needed

Yes. It's rather nifty. The by-product is better than the platform
detecter itself.

>... the tap-dancer even worked fine on my old 486dx2 Win3.1 with IE3.01
>in 'fixedsys' too!  (IE3.01.2723 with: JSCRPT16.DLL 194.736 Kb 19-03-97)

How did you do that? I once altered all Win95-settings I could find,
but the only thing that wouldn't change was the Arial font in those
textarea's. Can't remember the browser's version.

>but with \r\n and didn't work too well with just \r ... i got one
>continuous line wrapped in the textarea dancing about
>(i guess i'll adopt mic's code for mac line-terminators)

In your search for Javascript docs, did you ever stumble upon
a list of navigator.userAgent data, I mean the strings the
browsers return?

>...
>a WinNT box at work with IE3.02 uses a proportional font! eek!
>
>[mic] if your reading this ... i half expected to see your glorious
>      'Bewegend ASCII-logo' animation too ... oh well ... glad you've
>      got your server sorted now anyway

It's there... <www.dataweb.nl/~mic/main4.htm> Didn't you use a version 4
browser or did my browser detection script on the homepage fail?

So many questions... I'm gone for a week, so take your time for
answering. If you feel like answering in the first place. =)

cu,
mic

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