Re: Help save ascii art from destruction by variable fonts
From afn49349@afn.org <afn...@macrocosm.com>
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· 25 Dec 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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John Debruyn (jde...@access.usa.net) wrote: > I put the ascii art up on the Web using the HTML <pre> code. My browser > which is set to a fixed width font set picked the item up really well, > but again the other beta testers came up with unintelligible mix mash. > You can take a look at what I am working with at: > http://www.usa.net/~jdebruyn/postcard.html The PRE tag in HTML is defined such that browsers are supposed to use fixed width fonts. PRE is used to create tables if your browser doesn't support such functions. If a browser is not using fixed width fonts for text inside a PRE tag, then something is wrong with that browser and it is not following the HTML standard. People should complain to the browser manufacturer about that. L Michaels http://members.aol.com/lauram3017/index.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= RFC850 Headers Follow =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- X-ENSMTPGroup: alt.ascii-art 220 47598 <59p71b$5o...@huron.eel.ufl.edu> article Path: news.aimnet.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!us enet.eel.ufl.edu!afn49349 From: afn...@afn.org (Laura Michaels) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Help save ascii art from destruction by variable fonts Date: 24 Dec 1996 18:22:35 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: <59p71b$5o...@huron.eel.ufl.edu> References: <59ot4e$cu...@shiva.usa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet4.afn.org NNTP-Posting-User: afn49349 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] --
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