Animations for Internet Explorer almost reality...

The problem with animations have so far been that they don't work in
Internet Explorer, you have to have a fairly new version of Netscape.
Today I happened to get in touch with this browser and looked at a
couple of the animations on my homepage (
http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/ ) and saw that the
problem might not be totally unsolvable...

I have experimented a little and come up with this:

http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/explorerexperiment.html

It isn't perfect (in fact it's not even good) but it is a beginning to a
solution...

The major problems seem to be:

1. How to get a non-proportional font into the little text box.

2. How to make "unbreakable" space characters in Java (I mean a 
   Java equivalent to the     that I found for html...). I 
   used the character ':' as an approximation to a ' ' in the 
   example above.

Please, all hackers out there, get to work on this little "nut"....

-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
( llizard's fanclub:  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/llpages )

Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> 
> The problem with animations have so far been that they don't work in
> Internet Explorer, you have to have a fairly new version of Netscape.
> Today I happened to get in touch with this browser and looked at a
> couple of the animations on my homepage (
> http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/ ) and saw that the
> problem might not be totally unsolvable...

Hi Veronica.

I recently bought a new mac, and upgraded to Netscape 3.01
Now I see why it was really worth it!
The ascii animations are great!
Keep up the good work!

Erik
<http://wigwam.askoyv.no/Ascii> Wicked Ascii Art