Talk: WWW text

OK time to stop lurking (again) and offer a suggestion to the budding
Ascii-artists out in 'Netland!

In case you hadn't noticed, WWW pages are becoming the latest 'in-thing'
on the InterNet.

Most of the pages are full of Gif files and only look good on graphical
browsers like Netscape or Mosaic. However, not everyone uses graphical
browsers to read WWW pages, many people use text-only browsers such
as Lynx.

When Lynx sees a Gif file, it simply puts up the word [IMAGE] and
continues. However when writing a Web page, you are allowed to add
the command ALT="" after all your Gif files. This allows Lynx to
display whatever appears inbetween the quotation marks instead of just
[IMAGE].

Where does Ascii-Art come in? Well, many WWW pages often contain similar
graphic buttons, such as bullet points, 'next' and 'back' buttons,
sound file buttons and the like.

What I am suggesting is that the Ascii-artists should get together and
suggest 'standard' text replacements for the most common graphic images.

Here are a couple of suggestions:

[<-] back
[->] next


The only limitation is keeping the text on a single line.

Let your imagination run free and see what you can come up with!


                                                   DR J

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