Re: [SUGGESTION] Amendment to a.a-a FAQ re: HTML

Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:
> Veronica Karlsson writes
> >Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:
> >>   This is a text newsgroup. While nobody will object to a couple of tags
> >>   at the beginning and end, the vast majority of the picture should look
> >>   like 100% readable text: if it looks like a load of HTMLtags, you will
> >>   get flamed by people whose newsreaders don't render it.
> >
> >I think you're making the same mistake as Colin here, those < things
> >were *supposed* to show up in the newsgroup. The description was for how
> >to present ascii art in html *on a web page*, i.e. the html part was the
> >subject of the discussion,
> 
> No, I undertand that.  I am happy with (a) some discussion of how to
> present html, or (b) a picture which happens to start with
> <HTML><BODY><PRE><FONT COLOUR="FF0000">.
> 
> What I don't want is somebody telling me "this is a picture",
> but what I see on my screen is <tag><tag>blah<moretags>bl<tags>
> i.e. looks nothing like a picture unless it is rendered as HTML.

What you read was a descritpion of how to present ascii art in an html
document on a homepage. It was illustrated with a code example. For that
example to show anything interesting at all it had to contain certain
things, things which makes the little bird look weird. This has nothing
to do with how you see things in your news program since the technique
is not supposed to be used in newsgroups.

> 
> I am certainly not taking a dogmatic position against all html.
> 

Just a suspicion, your news program shows _all_ html as just a bunch of
tags, right? You see no difference between a post that is _in_ html and
a post that is _about_ html, right?

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