Re: [Ascii web sites]

Annie Ascii wrote:
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> On 2003-05-03 nzo...@despammed.com (nzogn) said:
> 
>    > Anyone can tell me where can I find some web sites entirely built
>    > with ascii art instead of usual buttons, images, etc...?
>    >
>    > I would like to build my own site like this, but I'm a
>    > really ascii-newbie and I need some inspiration! ;)
> 
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> 
> Just learn some HTML code, and write your own pages
> with a text editor. Don't use those crappy "page
> designer" programs; they suck.
> 
> Do a Google search (www.google.com) on "HTML tutorial."
> You'll find lots of information.
> 
> One of the problems with an ASCII web site is that the
> majority of people who visit the site will be using
> WinDoze, Loonix, Mac X-crement, or some other kind of
> gooey-based operating system.
> 
> And they'll be using a graphical browser which defaults
> to a proportional font.
> 
> When ASCII art is rendered in a proportional font, it
> looks like crap.
> 
> Even specifying the font type in your HTML code is no
> guarantee that an ASCII site will render properly in
> a graphical browser. Even the "Courier" font used by
> some browsers is proportional.
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Hey, according to the w3c you can be sure that the font will be of fixed-width 
if you use something like <body style="font-family: monospace;">. If somebody 
has designed a browser that does not respect this standard then anybody who uses 
this piece of software does certainly not deserve to be able to view your webside...

I agree: do NOT use anything like M$ Frontpage... Even real _good_ homepage 
designer software (is this thing called 'dreamweaver'?) is not meant to be used 
to build a pure ascii-art homepage. And another tip: I'd rather not use colours 
apart from b/w and w/b (in fact grey on black) in an ascii-art homepage for 
several reasons:
* it looks somewhat cheap and filthy (at least I feel)
* it is _hard_ to edit since you do not really see your picture anymore through 
all the tags...
* is it ascii-art when it's coloured?

Oh one more thing comes to my mind: have htmltidy or something similar to clean 
up your html and be extremely sure to substitute all <s and >s with the 
appropriate &thingy...

obascii (i'm a bit out of shape):

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