Re: tapdance - new Javascript ASCII-animation

llizard wrote:

>In article <373...@NEWS.DATAWEB.NL>, mmi...@dataweb.nl (miK)
>wrote:
>> 
>> llizard wrote:
>> 
>> [emergency snip]
>> 
>> >I have changed my template to remove any reference to /r/n that was in
>> >there before. (It was an earlier version of MSIE that caused us to even
>> >add the extra /r in the first place.)
>> 
>> Oops! I didn't know you had changed the code (haven't read the last
>> part of the thread "Advanced Ascii Animation - NEW [1/1]") :((
>> 
>> First the good news: Your modified script _does_ work in MSIE4 on
>> Windows95 (that's the platform I used to watch your tapdance).
>> The bad news is it's no good in MSIE4 on a Mac! Boxes instead
>> of line breaks.
>> 
>> Felt pretty bad about handing over false information. So with
>> the device "Thou shalt not extrapolate!" in mind, I ran the 4
>> possible scripts -- using \n, \r, \n\r and \r\n (not /r/n!!) --
>> on the 3 OS'es that I have at my disposal, and drew a
>> conclusion, just based on "trial & error". =)
>
>Hmmm. /r/n was a dyslexic typo in the post only. Sorry about that. I'm
>positive that I have never used it in the animations themselves.

Yep! That would have struck.

>> Here are the results:
>>                      \n   \r  \n\r   \r\n
>> msie4.0   (windows)   +    +   - 3)   +
>>   ns4.04  (windows)   +    +   - 3)   +
>> msie4.01  (mac)       - 1) +   - 2)   +
>>   ns4.5   (mac)       +    +   - 3)   +
>>   ns4.05  (linux)     +    +   - 3)   +
>> 
>> sidenotes 1) no line breaks
>>           2) boxes
>>           3) extra blank lines
>> 
>> It's either \r or \r\n I guess. But \n isn't that bad.
>> 
>> ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o
>> 
>> About the remarks made by Matthew Thomas and Martin Atkins...
>> 
>> Matthew -- using ns4.5 (mac) -- noticed extra blank lines. I didn't.
>> ...?? No offence, llizard, but did you by accident put in \n\r
>> instead of \r\n?
>> 
>> Martin suspected the problems had something to do with the different
>> ways dos/windows, un*x/linux and mac treat the end of a line. He made
>> his remarks with this diagram in mind, probably:
>> 
>> systems      ____end-of-a-line______ ...........
>>              ascii    hex     acr   | javascript
>> dos&windows  #13#10   0D 0A   CR/LF | \r\n ?
>> un*x&linux   #10      0A      LF    | \n   ?
>> mac          #13      0D      CR    | \r   ?
>> 
>> [out of RAM snip]
>> 
>> >I have changed my template to remove any reference to /r/n that was in
>> >there before. (It was an earlier version of MSIE that caused us to even
>> >add the extra /r in the first place.)
>> 
>> Was that the reason? But we couldn't even find a way to adjust a
>> fixed-width font to the anims in MSIE3...
>
>Thanks for doing the tests, Mic, but...
>
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>
>I can't stand it. I will change everything to \r instead of \n.

That's drastic! Are you sure? With \n you've probably got over 90%
of the "audience" covered. And, although \r was OK in netscape/linux,
I have no idea whether it works on un*x systems as well.

Another result to add to the list:

                      \n   \r  \n\r   \r\n
ns3.01gold (windows)   +    +   - 3)   +

>And no,
>I'm pretty sure that I didn't put \n\r instead of \r\n. (no offense
>taken) Matthew wasn't the only person who was getting double spacing. I
>guess it must have been the Mac that caused the addition of the \r.

That would be odd. In any case it's probably not a wrapping problem
as Matthew suggests, because the default in a <TEXTAREA> tag is NOWRAP.

>I knew the problem occurred in some machine I didn't have....
>
>I suppose I could do two pages for each one (grrrr) or is there some way
>that I can put into the script something like "ifWin95 choose \n; if Mac
>choose \r" ?  

Of course. But right now the script is plain and simple. I'm afraid
adding browser detection etc. will slow the script down endlessly.
Those Javascript interpreters aren't the fastest things on your
machine, you know. And we're not the world's shrewdest programmers. =)


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