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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Nov 2000.
Re: some ascii of mine

Re: some ascii of mine

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:27:40 +0100, Veronica Karlsson <asc...@hotmail.com>
provoked the following text:

>> But then you will have to trust that plain text is displayed in a
>> fixed-width font in all browsers. And i don't trust all browsers.
>My experience is the opposite. I often see ascii art html pages that
>show up in a proportional font, but I've never had a problem with
>plain-text.
>
>Here are some examples (from Joan's list, under "personal exhibits",
>first the page URL, then the URL of a screen shot from it):
>
>http://users.breworld.net/m/martin.atkins/asciiart/
>http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional1.gif
>
>http://www.geocities.com/theshedragon/
>http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional2.gif
>
>http://home9.inet.tele.dk/jez/
>http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional3.gif
>
>http://www.gtcom.net/~krogg/ascii/
>http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional4.gif
>
>http://www.angelfire.com/mn/Maija/asciiart.html
>http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/proportional5.gif

All of these URLs look perfectly correct to me in both IE 5.5 and NS 4.7
I think you better check your settings in NS.

>Going through that list I stumbled on another interesting phenomenon:
>
>http://209.220.139.116/tooshy/indexts.html
>http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/what_happened_here.gif

That's just a matter of width, resize your browser or work in a higher
resolution.
-- 
        Peter Punk
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