Re: Help save ascii art from destruction by variable fonts

Vladimir A. Pertsel (vol...@sagantec.co.il) wrote:

> 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/>

A DOS version of lynx is available at
ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/WWW/DosLynx/DLX0_8A.EXE.

I use lynx and I like it a lot (even though many people who create web
sites are picking up the annoying habit of making their sites only
Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer compatible).  However, you really
should be able to use any browser that is compatible with the official
HTML standards to view ASCII art on a web page.  The official definitions
for the PRE tag that I've seen for HTML 2 and HTML 3.2 state that whatever
is inside must be rendered in a fixed width font.  If a browser doesn't
render it in a fixed width font, it is not compatible with the HTML
standard.  Even the AOL browser that renders the rest of the page in
proportional fonts, supports a fixed width font for the PRE tag.  

Wish the same could be said for e-mail and newsreaders.

Laura Michaels
http://members.aol.com/laurm3017/index.html

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