Re: Ascii-art in HTML
From Eric S. Smith: Left-Field Marshal <cse...@blaze.trentu.ca>
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· 14 Jul 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <7E5...@xemu.demon.co.uk>, Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Those of us who are on slow links, community based small machines, > blind people needing text to convert into speech, and so forth, > can have text only like this > ____________________ > | $#@ [A POTATO] | > |_@@?________________| Wow. Ugly. :) The versions of Lynx (is it the *only* text based browser, or just the only one that anyone uses?) that I've used just substitute the ALT text seamlessly. This leads to little clevernesses like: "If you're really interested, here's a picture of my dog, Muffy McShane III. But you can't see it." Well, it sure beats [IMAGE] [INLINE] [ISMAP] This page was made in SpiffoWeb 2.0! (c) 1996 by Fred Bobson Ooh! An alt.religion.scientology sig, featuring the judge's drowning dog! [snip] >OT8 Cognition:"Source is the 8th Dynamic" And Paul McGann in the 8th Doctor. :) --Eric Smith
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4f4a,aebf519eeed7c8a9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f4a,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,e8656e8782b25e98 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: cse...@blaze.trentu.ca (Eric S. Smith: Left-Field Marshal) Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML Date: 1996/07/14 Message-ID: <DuJ...@blaze.trentu.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168817292 references: <4rigs4$ed...@olorin.nask.pl> <0$DNw...@xemu.demon.co.uk> <Pin...@wknc3.sca.ncsu.edu> <7E5...@xemu.demon.co.uk> organization: Trent University, Canada newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.html
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