Re: Help save ascii art from destruction by variable fonts

I dare to say, that the appropriate WWW browser for alt.ascii-art
is lynx. It is free, and I have chosen it for speed. Besides, it 
skips all the advertisments! It never distorts ASCII pictures.

General Lynx information:     http://lynx.browser.org/
Lynx source distribution:     http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/sources.html
Lynx binary distribution:     http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/binaries.html
Lynx 2.6 documentation:       http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/2.6/
<URL:http://lynx.browser.org/>

On 24 Dec 1996, Laura Michaels wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

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