Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 5 Aug 1995.
Talk: ASCII art on web pages
alt.ascii-art
· 3 messages · 5 Aug 1995 - 8 Aug 1995
Hello ...
Bob Allison writes:
... you can use ASCII art in ALT tags, so that people
using text based can see an ASCII pic where people using
graphical browsers see a GIF.
I still don't see that this works, if the Art is multi-line. After
seeing this Post, I browsed BOBAWORLD again (with Image Auto-Loading off);
once again, each intended multi-line ALT appeared as a single, LONG, Line
of Text.
Am I the only one that has this trouble? Could it be that my Browser
(Netscape 1.1N) isn't quite capable of imitating a Text-Based one?
Regards,
Don
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In article <3vvum1$5g...@news.wwa.com>, B.D.S.McConnell <mcc...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > >Hello ... > >Bob Allison writes: > >> ... you can use ASCII art in ALT tags, so that people >> using text based can see an ASCII pic where people using >> graphical browsers see a GIF. > >I still don't see that this works, if the Art is multi-line. After >seeing this Post, I browsed BOBAWORLD again (with Image Auto-Loading off); >once again, each intended multi-line ALT appeared as a single, LONG, Line >of Text. > >Am I the only one that has this trouble? Could it be that my Browser >(Netscape 1.1N) isn't quite capable of imitating a Text-Based one? I have not yet figured out how to make it work for some browsers. If you browse with Lynx, you will indeed see ASCII art in place of GIFs. > __ __ __ __ > __~(_ \ / _)~__ __~(_ \ / _)~__ > ~(_ \ _) )( (_ / _)~ ~(_ \ _) )( (_ / _)~ > __ ) ).--..--.( ( __ __ ) ).--..--.( ( __ >~(_ \_(._.-..-._.)_/ _)~ HAVE A PETRIFIED DAY! ~(_ \_(._.-..-._.)_/ _)~ > _`._`._.-..-._.'_.'B.D.S.McConnell UW Dept of Math`._`._.-..-._.'_.'_ >~(_ \_:' <> <> `:_/ _)mcc...@math.washington.edu(_ \_:' <> <> `:_/ _)~ > `._.' http://www.math.washington.edu/~mcconnel/ `._.' > ~(_`-(\_`--'_/)-'_)~ ~(_`-(\_`--'_/)-'_)~ > ~(_`- ) ( -'_)~ ~(_`- ) ( -'_)~ > `-' `-' `-' `-' Nice sig. -- ...... ..... ...... ....... ...... ..... ....... ...... ... ... ... ::::::: :::::: :::::::: :::::::: :::::: :::::: :::::::: :::::::: ::: ::: ::: +:: +:: ::+ ::: ::+ ::: ::+ ::+ ::+ ::: ::+ ::: ::+ ::+ ::+ +:+ +:+ +:+ :+: +:+ :+: +:+ +:+ +:+ :+: +:+ :+: +:+ +:+ +:+ ++::++ +:+ :+:+:+:+ :+::+:+ :+++#+ :+: :+:++:+ :+: +:+ :++ ++: :+: ++++++ +++ ++++++++ ++++++ +++++# +++ ++++++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +#+ #++ ++# +++ ++# #++ ++# ++# ++# #++ ++# +++ ++# ++# ++# +#+ #+# #+# +#+ #+# +#+ #+# #+# #+# +#+ #+# +#+ #+# #+# #+# ##+#### +#+### +#+ #+# +#+ #+# +##+## +#+#+# +#+ #+# +#+#+##+ +###+#++#+#+# ###### ##### ### ### ### ### ###### ##### ### ### ###### ###########
Well try it with lynx. that's the one Scarecrow recommends. It works really well from there. I am thinking of adding text ALTs to my page, but currently all of the images there are just mine and I find ASCII Art so much harder to do well. Peace!
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