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HTML and Browser Support

HTML and Browser Support

alt.ascii-art · 65 messages · 20 Apr 1998 - 11 May 1998
Donovan wrote in message <353...@gwtc.net>...
>Ok we have too good threads on the discussion of HTML and Browser
>Support, "Half Space Technique for html art" & "The <PLAINTEXT> HTML
>tag: Good for ASCIIArt?" I help many people with HTML and some Java. I
>don't even know anyone who does not use a Netscape or IE browser. Those
>of you who do not, can you explain to me what you use and why so I can
>get a clear understanding of Lynx, Unix, WinWeb....and why you chose to
>use them. I realize that I travel only in the United States and maybe
>geography has something to do with it.

WHAT I USE WHEN I'M NOT IN NETSCAPE OR IE.
a really short essay (c) 1998--all mine!!
all the browsers I have access to, etc...

What: Lynx.
   Why: My Internet provider, MSN [pause for uproarious laughter]
occasionally [more laughter] goes down, leaving me with my school's dialup
shell.  (I should get a PPP from them some day.)

What: WebTracker
   Why: I am (occasionally) found in MUDs, and my MUD client is Chaco's
"Pueblo".  Pueblo has its own little browser, WebTracker, which
automatically loads whenever I click a link that happens to appear in the
MUD.

What: emacs-w3
   Why: I recently became addicted to the idea of emacs and even though I
can't get it to work without crashing every few minutes, I get this special
"I feel tingly" from using it... Kinda the same I get from perusing James
Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake."

What: Amaya
   Why: You'd expect W3C to be able to make a decent browser, wouldn't you?
Uh.. not exactly.  It does work, in some places, and it most definitely does
not in others.  Ah well.

What: AOL
   Why: don't ask.

What: Sam Spade
   Why: It takes 'plain text' literally.  Instead of doing anything silly
like parsing html it just shows it.  I use it if I think a page might have
something malicious on it. [In fact, I just used it this morning, luckily.]

I think that's it.

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Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> ASCII art 20 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Brock Kevin Nambo wrote:
<stuff elided>
> What: Lynx.
> What: WebTracker
> What: emacs-w3
> What: Amaya
> What: AOL
> What: Sam Spade

Could you spend the effort to verify the html code below with your many
browsers?

I think, that in a parallel thread we were able to establish that all
Netscapes and all Internet Explorers interpret the code correctly (about
90% of web surfers) but that only some, and not all Lynx's will
interpret the code correctly. Assuming that 5% of websurfers use Lynx,
we are currently at around 90% to 95% of websurfers who see the pic
rendered correctly. 

Depending on whether or not the other browsers (aol in particular)
render the code correctly, we may or may not be able to push beyond the
95% mark. 

Thanks in advance ... Pete

<HTML>
<BODY>

<CENTER><PRE>

Half Space Technique for html art

<TT>01   .oo   </TT>
<TT>02  (  -)  </TT>
<TT>03   " "   </TT>
<TT>04         </TT>
<TT>05    .oo   </TT>
<TT>06  (  -)  </TT>
<TT>07   " "   </TT>
<TT>08         </TT>
<TT>09   .oo    </TT>
<TT>10  (  -)  </TT>
<TT>11   " "   </TT>

</PRE></CENTER>

</BODY>
</HTML>

Donovan <bak...@gwtc.net> ASCII art 20 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Brock Kevin Nambo wrote:
 
 Donovan wrote in message <353...@gwtc.net>...
-Ok we have too good threads on the discussion of HTML and Browser
-Support, "Half Space Technique for html art" & "The <PLAINTEXT> HTML
-tag: Good for ASCIIArt?" I help many people with HTML and some Java. I
-don't even know anyone who does not use a Netscape or IE browser. Those
-of you who do not, can you explain to me what you use and why so I can
-get a clear understanding of Lynx, Unix, WinWeb....and why you chose to
-use them. I realize that I travel only in the United States and maybe
-geography has something to do with it.
 
 
> What: Lynx.
>    Why: My Internet provider, MSN [pause for uproarious laughter]
> occasionally [more laughter] goes down, leaving me with my school's dialup
> shell.  (I should get a PPP from them some day.)
 
> What: WebTracker
>    Why: I am (occasionally) found in MUDs, and my MUD client is Chaco's
> "Pueblo".  Pueblo has its own little browser, WebTracker, which
> automatically loads whenever I click a link that happens to appear in the
> MUD.
 
> What: emacs-w3
>    Why: I recently became addicted to the idea of emacs and even though I
> can't get it to work without crashing every few minutes, I get this special
> "I feel tingly" from using it... Kinda the same I get from perusing James
> Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake."
 
> What: Amaya
>    Why: You'd expect W3C to be able to make a decent browser, wouldn't you?
> Uh.. not exactly.  It does work, in some places, and it most definitely does
> not in others.  Ah well.
 
> What: AOL
>    Why: don't ask.

This I can relate too................LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
 
> What: Sam Spade
>    Why: It takes 'plain text' literally.  Instead of doing anything silly
> like parsing html it just shows it.  I use it if I think a page might have
> something malicious on it. [In fact, I just used it this morning, luckily.]

LMAO, Well that *believe it or not* is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a ton. My webpage is designed to handle Netscape and IE and not
the others. So now I understand a little more about them...lol...the
important stuff anyway. Thanks a lot. I appreciated the honest play by
play. *S*


Peace,
Donovan



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Donovan <bak...@gwtc.net> ASCII art 20 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Ok we have too good threads on the discussion of HTML and Browser
Support, "Half Space Technique for html art" & "The <PLAINTEXT> HTML
tag: Good for ASCIIArt?" I help many people with HTML and some Java. I
don't even know anyone who does not use a Netscape or IE browser. Those
of you who do not, can you explain to me what you use and why so I can
get a clear understanding of Lynx, Unix, WinWeb....and why you chose to
use them. I realize that I travel only in the United States and maybe
geography has something to do with it. 

Thanks, and BTW, I know I'm not the only one who is curious about this.
*S*

Peace,

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Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> ASCII art 21 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Thanks, BKN and others! 

With the previous results, I think we can now say that the html code
below (and the Half Space Technique) is rendered correctly by all of the
major browsers and some of the minor browsers, in particular: Netscape,
MSIE, AOL, WebTracker, and some of the Lynx versions. That makes about
95% of the websurfers, give or take a few percentage points, not bad 
at all!

However, to say things the other way around, (and ignoring professional
naysayers for the moment  ;-))  about 5% of websurfers will see a
slightly distorted picture in the sense that the characters intended to
go on half spaces will be rendered on integer spaces. Moreover, this
happens without the websurfer being aware that s/he is looking at a
slightly distorted picture.

A reference point may put things into perspective, since this situation
is quite different with the other graphic formats. For example, a gif
will also be visible to about 95% of the websurfers, but it is either
visible or not (or rendered quite erroneously such as heavily smudged or
streaked). In any case, the difference is that the websurfer is aware if
something goes wrong.

In summary, I would say there is little risk in using the Half Space
Technique for html art. The html code provided will be rendered
correctly, only one out of twenty websurfers will see a slightly
distorted picture.

Well folks, that's as far as I wanted go on this topic ... Pete

<HTML>
<BODY>

<CENTER><PRE>

Half Space Technique for html art

<TT>01   .oo   </TT>
<TT>02  (  -)  </TT>
<TT>03   " "   </TT>
<TT>04         </TT>
<TT>05    .oo   </TT>
<TT>06  (  -)  </TT>
<TT>07   " "   </TT>
<TT>08         </TT>
<TT>09   .oo    </TT>
<TT>10  (  -)  </TT>
<TT>11   " "   </TT>

</PRE></CENTER>

</BODY>
</HTML>

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> Brock Kevin Nambo wrote:
> : All done! (Spade isn't really something you'd surf to read with.  It would
> : look just like the code example, tags and everything.)
> 
> Real men use "telnet www.site.net 80"! ;-)
> 

Real women kind of like mosaic:

http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/rubbish/petecasso.xmosaic2.7b4.dum.gif

(I *tried* to use an older (and in my opinion better) version but it
seemed to be broken somehow... I guess it's time to write yet another
letter to a certain sysadmin...  :P  )

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Donovan (bak...@gwtc.net) wrote:
: don't even know anyone who does not use a Netscape or IE browser. Those
: of you who do not, can you explain to me what you use and why so I can
: get a clear understanding of Lynx, Unix, WinWeb....and why you chose to
: use them. I realize that I travel only in the United States and maybe
: geography has something to do with it. 

Fine, I'll bite, this time.

Name: Ilmari Karonen
Uses: Lynx (usually), Netscape (if I need graphics),
      M$IE (not if I can avoid it)
Why: a) Having a very very low end machine, few graphical browsers
        run on it without crashing, hogging resources and generally
        being slow and annoying.
     b) I can run Lynx over telnet, making it easy to start whenever
        I need to get something from the web.
     c) It's fast. Not only do I avoid loading images, but if I run
        it on the ISP's server I don't have to pull all that tag
        soup through my 14.4k modem link.
     d) It's limited, yes, but what it does it does very well. I've
        yet to see another browser that'd follow the the recommended
        parsing rules as nicely.
     e) Some of its limitations are actually good things. I rather
        like the frame/refresh implementation, for example. (It shows
        both as links at the top of the page.)
What I miss: Incremental display, optional justification of table
             columns, smarter caching, better HTML authors =)

Brock Kevin Nambo <new...@earthling.net> ASCII art 21 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso wrote in message <353...@sympatico.ca>...
>Brock Kevin Nambo wrote:
><stuff elided>
>> What: Lynx.
>> What: WebTracker
>> What: emacs-w3
>> What: Amaya
>> What: AOL
>> What: Sam Spade
>
>Could you spend the effort to verify the html code below with your many
>browsers?

All done! (Spade isn't really something you'd surf to read with.  It would
look just like the code example, tags and everything.)

<HTML>
<BODY>

<CENTER><PRE>

Half Space Technique for html art

<TT>01   .oo   </TT>
<TT>02  (  -)  </TT>
<TT>03   " "   </TT>
<TT>04         </TT>
<TT>05    .oo   </TT>
<TT>06  (  -)  </TT>
<TT>07   " "   </TT>
<TT>08         </TT>
<TT>09   .oo    </TT>
<TT>10  (  -)  </TT>
<TT>11   " "   </TT>

</PRE></CENTER>

</BODY>
</HTML>

To centering:
Lynx and emacs didn't center it.

To half-spacing:
Webtracker did it right, (which surprised me!)
Netscape, AOL, and IE got it right,
and the others didn't get it right. :(
(But Lynx and emacs/w3 can't support half-spaces anyway.  Yet.  I hear
emacs' next version will support proportional fonts; we'll have to see
whether that lets them half-spaces too.)

For those who want to see for themselves, I made screenshots <g> available
at

http://members.xoom.com/mozilla/pete/

The original html example (so you can see it in yer browser):

http://members.xoom.com/mozilla/pete/pete.html

>>BKNambo
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Donovan <bak...@gwtc.net> ASCII art 21 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Ilmari Karonen wrote:
 
 Donovan (bak...@gwtc.net) wrote:
 : don't even know anyone who does not use a Netscape or IE browser.
Those
 : of you who do not, can you explain to me what you use and why so I
can
 : get a clear understanding of Lynx, Unix, WinWeb....and why you chose
to
 : use them. I realize that I travel only in the United States and maybe
 : geography has something to do with it.
 
- Fine, I'll bite, this time.
 
- Name: Ilmari Karonen
- Uses: Lynx (usually), Netscape (if I need graphics),
-       M$IE (not if I can avoid it)
- Why: a) Having a very very low end machine, few graphical browsers
-         run on it without crashing, hogging resources and generally
-         being slow and annoying.
-      b) I can run Lynx over telnet, making it easy to start whenever
-         I need to get something from the web.
-      c) It's fast. Not only do I avoid loading images, but if I run
-         it on the ISP's server I don't have to pull all that tag
-        soup through my 14.4k modem link.
-      d) It's limited, yes, but what it does it does very well. I've
-         yet to see another browser that'd follow the the recommended
-         parsing rules as nicely.
-      e) Some of its limitations are actually good things. I rather
-         like the frame/refresh implementation, for example. (It shows
-         both as links at the top of the page.)
- What I miss: Incremental display, optional justification of table
-              columns, smarter caching, better HTML authors =)


Thanks for that. I might wonder ask you this...can't you use Netscape
and just shut the graphics off? Or does it not work well for some
reason? 

Thanks for all the responses to this. I'm learning some good info.

Peace,
Donovan

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Brock Kevin Nambo (new...@earthling.net) wrote:
: All done! (Spade isn't really something you'd surf to read with.  It would
: look just like the code example, tags and everything.)

Real men use "telnet www.site.net 80"! ;-)

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Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.fi> ASCII art 21 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Donovan (bak...@gwtc.net) wrote:
: Ilmari Karonen wrote:
: - Name: Ilmari Karonen
: - Uses: Lynx (usually), Netscape (if I need graphics),
: -       M$IE (not if I can avoid it)
: - Why: a) Having a very very low end machine, few graphical browsers
: -         run on it without crashing, hogging resources and generally
: -         being slow and annoying.
: -      b) I can run Lynx over telnet, making it easy to start whenever
: -         I need to get something from the web.
: -      c) It's fast. Not only do I avoid loading images, but if I run
: -         it on the ISP's server I don't have to pull all that tag
: -         soup through my 14.4k modem link.
: -      d) It's limited, yes, but what it does it does very well. I've
: -         yet to see another browser that'd follow the the recommended
: -         parsing rules as nicely.
: -      e) Some of its limitations are actually good things. I rather
: -         like the frame/refresh implementation, for example. (It shows
: -         both as links at the top of the page.)

: Thanks for that. I might wonder ask you this...can't you use Netscape
: and just shut the graphics off? Or does it not work well for some
: reason? 

That affects the first half of point c only. Admittedly it's an important
point, but the others still exist. (I do turn the images off if I don't
need them when using Netscape/IE.)

ObAsciiArt: (looks for something unpublished..) Hmm, a shaded box. Well,
I guess that'll do.

        __________________
       /\  ______________ \
      /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
     /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
    /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
   /:/Z/__\:\ \____/:/Z/  \:\ \
  /:/Z/____\:\ \___\/Z/    \:\ \
  \:\ \ZZZZZ\:\ \ZZ/\ \     \:\ \
   \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
    \:\ \     \:\ \_\;\_\_____\;\ \
     \:\ \     \:\_________________\
      \:\ \    /:/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/
       \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
        \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
         \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
          \::/Z/_______itz__\/Z/
           \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/

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http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/

Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz> ASCII art 21 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
.----- On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 07:32:52 -0600, Donovan <bak...@gwtc.net> posted:
| Those of you who do not, can you explain to me what you use and why so I can
|get a clear understanding of Lynx, Unix, WinWeb
'-------------------------

I used to use...

Name: Martin Atkins
Browser: Pipeline
Why: ISP forced me to <g>
Features:
    Not a lot - about the only formatting it supports are <B>, <I>, <A> and <BR>. Oh and of course <PRE> :)
    Can`t even centre :)
    Loads images... but very slowly and not animated or i'laced gifs or any jpg.

As you can tell, it`s a bit rubbish.

Name: Martin Atkins
Browser: AWeb2
Why: Using my Amiga 1200, and got it off a coverdisk.
Features: Very nice implementation of HTML - does almost everything MSIE or NS do, frames and all...
          
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llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca> ASCII art 22 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
In article <6hliv0$ek3$2...@nntp-2.io.com>, c...@pentagon.io.com (Cyberspace
Buddha) wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Curly Walzer  <ma9...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
> >Just a small improvement!
[snip]
> >
> >mind bogaling isn't it?
> 
> It is indeed mind-boggling that you did the same thing I did, *and*
> made teh same mistake. ;)  Here, let me fix it.
> 
>         __________________
>        /\  ______________ \
>       /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
>      /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
>     /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
>    /:/Z/__\_\_\____/:/Z/  \:\ \
>   /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
>   \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
>    \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
>     \:\ \     \:\ \_\:\ \_____\;\ \
>      \:\ \     \:\___\:\ \_________\
>       \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\:\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
>        \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
>         \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
>          \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
>           \::/Z/________cb__\/Z/
>            \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/
> 
> cheers,
> cb

I like the use of the "Z". It puts me in mind of what happened to me for
the first part of this thread.

                   z
         ___     z
       _/   |   z
      |_____| ===-^^>
        --- ==    \/ >
      [_____]      __>,^
ejm    |   |      //| |

         ___
       _/   |  huh?    whaa- aa- tt's    that
      |_____| ---@@^>                 ASCII-art
        --- ==  / _/ >             doing in this
      [_____]      __>,^          d e a d l y
ejm    |   |      //| |            t h r e a d  ? ? ?

        ___  
      _/   |   ,^%---
     |_____| __>_ \ Nice box you made.
       --- ==  >/
     [_____] __>,^
ejm   |   | //| |


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 "   \ ha        ASCII-art and Javascript ASCII-animations

Just a small improvement!
         __________________
        /\  ______________ \
       /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
      /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
     /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
    /:/Z/___________/:/Z/  \:\ \
   /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
   \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
    \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
     \:\ \     \:\ \_\;\ \_____\;\ \
      \:\ \     \:\___\;\ \_________\
       \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\;\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
        \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
         \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
          \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
           \::/Z/_______itz__\/Z/
            \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/  ,jsw

mind bogaling isn't it?
> 
> -- 
> Ilmari Karonen (ilt...@sci.fi)
> http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
> 
> 
> 

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Jonathan Curly Walzer <ma9...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
>Just a small improvement!
>         __________________
>        /\  ______________ \
>       /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
>      /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
>     /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
>    /:/Z/___________/:/Z/  \:\ \
>   /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
>   \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
>    \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
>     \:\ \     \:\ \_\;\ \_____\;\ \
>      \:\ \     \:\___\;\ \_________\
>       \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\;\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
>        \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
>         \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
>          \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
>           \::/Z/_______itz__\/Z/
>            \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/  ,jsw

>mind bogaling isn't it?

Well at least it's Ascii-art and not all this HTML Tutorial stuff
we've been seeing heaps of recently. Grrrr. :-(

Bye,

Cyberspace Buddha <c...@pentagon.io.com> ASCII art 22 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
In article <6hihln$8rc$1...@tron.sci.fi>, Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.fi> wrote:
>
>        __________________
>       /\  ______________ \
>      /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
>     /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
>    /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
>   /:/Z/__\:\ \____/:/Z/  \:\ \
>  /:/Z/____\:\ \___\/Z/    \:\ \
>  \:\ \ZZZZZ\:\ \ZZ/\ \     \:\ \
>   \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
>    \:\ \     \:\ \_\;\_\_____\;\ \
>     \:\ \     \:\_________________\
>      \:\ \    /:/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/
>       \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
>        \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
>         \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
>          \::/Z/_______itz__\/Z/
>           \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/


DIDDLE!

        __________________
       /\  ______________ \
      /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
     /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
    /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
   /:/Z/___________/:/Z/  \:\ \
  /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
  \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
   \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
    \:\ \     \:\ \_\:\ \_____\;\ \
     \:\ \     \:\___\:\ \_________\
      \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\:\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
       \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
        \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
         \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
          \::/Z/________cb__\/Z/
           \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/

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Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.fi> ASCII art 22 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Jonathan Curly Walzer (ma9...@brunel.ac.uk) wrote:
: Just a small improvement!
          __________________
         /\  ______________ \
        /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
       /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
      /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
     /:/Z/__\;\_\____/:/Z/  \:\ \
    /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
    \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
     \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
      \:\ \     \:\ \_\:\ \_____\;\ \
       \:\ \     \:\___\:\ \_________\
        \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\:\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
         \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
          \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
           \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
            \::/Z/_______itz__\/Z/
             \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/  ,jsw

Indeed, that's what I first drew it for, but decided that the illusion
wasn't as convincing as I'd have liked. Actually your version is quite
nice, I think I only tried reversing one of the intersections. *slaps
forehead* Duh!

-- 
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http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/

Cyberspace Buddha <c...@pentagon.io.com> ASCII art 22 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Jonathan Curly Walzer  <ma9...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
>Just a small improvement!
>         __________________
>        /\  ______________ \
>       /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
>      /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
>     /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
>    /:/Z/___________/:/Z/  \:\ \
>   /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
>   \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
>    \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
>     \:\ \     \:\ \_\;\ \_____\;\ \
>      \:\ \     \:\___\;\ \_________\
>       \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\;\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
>        \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
>         \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
>          \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
>           \::/Z/_______itz__\/Z/
>            \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/  ,jsw
>
>mind bogaling isn't it?

It is indeed mind-boggling that you did the same thing I did, *and*
made teh same mistake. ;)  Here, let me fix it.

        __________________
       /\  ______________ \
      /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
     /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
    /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
   /:/Z/__\_\_\____/:/Z/  \:\ \
  /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
  \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
   \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
    \:\ \     \:\ \_\:\ \_____\;\ \
     \:\ \     \:\___\:\ \_________\
      \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\:\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
       \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
        \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
         \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
          \::/Z/________cb__\/Z/
           \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/

cheers,
cb
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Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> ASCII art 22 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Did you incinerate Greatgrandpa?
        /
       /        Yes, and it gave an ugly smell!
    ,,         /
   ( ">      oo.
 ,(> )>     (-  )
(  ^^        " "
 ``````````````````http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/

Still curious what it would take to write html code for close to 100% of
websurfers, I visited the list of all available browsers at

http://browserwatch.internet.com/browsers.html

The list contains some 50 browsers for 5 OSs: Amiga, Mac, OS/2, Unix,
Windows, and miscellaneous computing platforms.

That means that you would need to comply with close to 100 browser
_versions_ including finding workarounds for the bugs in the browsers
themselves, if that is possible at all, shudder ...

    ,,
   ( ">     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!
 ,(=>)=>   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/
(  ^^    'stein movies, 'stein games and more!
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Ojoshiro <ojo...@earthling.net> ASCII art 23 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> 
> Brock Kevin Nambo (new...@earthling.net) wrote:
> : All done! (Spade isn't really something you'd surf to read with.  It would
> : look just like the code example, tags and everything.)
> 
> Real men use "telnet www.site.net 80"! ;-)
> 
> --
> Ilmari Karonen (ilt...@sci.fi)
> http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/

Real men use a straight razor =)

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(  ,'   Ojo '98
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Ojoshiro <ojo...@earthling.net> ASCII art 23 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Cyberspace Buddha wrote:
 
> In article <6hihln$8rc$1...@tron.sci.fi>, Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.fi> wrote:
 >
 >        __________________
 >       /\  ______________ \
 >      /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
 >     /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
 >    /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
 >   /:/Z/__\:\ \____/:/Z/  \:\ \
 >  /:/Z/____\:\ \___\/Z/    \:\ \
 >  \:\ \ZZZZZ\:\ \ZZ/\ \     \:\ \
 >   \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
 >    \:\ \     \:\ \_\;\_\_____\;\ \
 >     \:\ \     \:\_________________\
 >      \:\ \    /:/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/
 >       \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
 >        \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
 >         \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
 >          \::/Z/_______itz__\/Z/
 >           \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/
 
 DIDDLE!
 
         __________________
        /\  ______________ \
       /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
      /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
     /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
    /:/Z/__\L\_\____/:/Z/  \:\ \
   /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
   \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
    \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
     \:\ \     \:\ \_\:\ \_____\;\ \
      \:\ \     \:\___\:\ \_________\
       \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\:\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
        \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
         \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
          \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
           \::/Z/____________\/Z/
            \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/
 
Hmmm, I tried to fix the upper crossing...
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Pete Casso wrote:
> 
> Still curious what it would take to write html code for close to 100% of
> websurfers, I visited the list of all available browsers at
> 
> http://browserwatch.internet.com/browsers.html
> 
> The list contains some 50 browsers for 5 OSs: Amiga, Mac, OS/2, Unix,
> Windows, and miscellaneous computing platforms.
> 
> That means that you would need to comply with close to 100 browser
> _versions_ including finding workarounds for the bugs in the browsers
> themselves, if that is possible at all, shudder ...
> 

PC, you are now in the wrong newsgroup!

There is a group that deals with exaclty this type of issues. Some of
the people there say that writing for 100% of the audience is possible.
Some of them even say that it is easy. Maybe you should go there, read
what they have to say, and discuss it with them there.

The group's name is comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

There is also a group named alt.html but they deal more with "how to do
neat tricks" than "how to make accessible html documents", which seems
to be what you are interested in learning about.

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You were responding to the same html articles, Veronicastein! By the
same token, I suggest that you are in the wrong newsgroup as well!

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(  ^^    'stein movies, 'stein games and more!
 remove stein from email address (spam block)

My dear Veronicastein,

Again, I suggest that you question your pretentious judgement calls on
what is on topic and what is not. The html discussion thread that I
initiated (only one of several on this newsgroup) has well over twenty
entries, people won't submit that many entries if they consider it off
topic.

I suggest too, that you are much happier in flammable newsgroups, since
you like to initiate and wallow in your daily flaming exercises, whereas
poor me, I only throw them back to you  :-))

    ,,
   ( ">     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!
 ,(=>)=>   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/
(  ^^    'stein movies, 'stein games and more!

The connection to ascii art, my dear, is that we want to post it on the
web with html to an as large audience as possible. That's stated in one
line, your long winded theorems are unnecessary.

And if you really object to just one of my articles, why don't you spend
your energy on the money, sex, and what have you in aaa, there are many
of those flying around, free for the grabs for you to flame and be happy
with.

    ,,
   ( ">     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!
 ,(=>)=>   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/
(  ^^    'stein movies, 'stein games and more!

BluePard <blu...@buffnet.net> ASCII art 23 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso wrote:
> <HTML>
> <BODY>
> 
> <CENTER><PRE>
> 
> Half Space Technique for html art
> 
> <TT>01   .oo   </TT>
> <TT>02  (  -)  </TT>
> <TT>03   " "   </TT>
> <TT>04         </TT>
> <TT>05    .oo   </TT>
> <TT>06  (  -)  </TT>
> <TT>07   " "   </TT>
> <TT>08         </TT>
> <TT>09   .oo    </TT>
> <TT>10  (  -)  </TT>
> <TT>11   " "   </TT>
> 
> </PRE></CENTER>
> 
> </BODY>
> </HTML>

Excuse me for missing it -- my server only got the original post
yesterday [whereupon I realized what this whole thread was about] -- so
why are you moving the </TT> over a space when moving the eyes back?
What does that do?
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Ojoshiro wrote:
> Yes, HTML is off topic, all ASCII-Artists should worry about is the
> proper use of <TT></TT> <BR> <PRE></PRE> and maybe some mime-types.


In the first half of the sentence, you object to discussing html, and
beginning with the second half of the sentence, you do exactly that.

Are you able to think at all?

Pete



 
> BTW, All browsers should act the same on standardized HTML. Plugins 
> and fancy stuff are not HTML and HTML is NOT meant to make nice-
> looking pages.
> It's a subset of SGML and it's meant to order information...
> 
> If you want to continue on it with me, fine, but send the reply to me,
> and not to this newsgroup.

>Are you able to think at all?

[plonk]

Welcome to the wide, wonderful world of my killfile, Pete.

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Pete Casso wrote in message <354...@sympatico.ca>...

SheDragon wrote in message <354...@news.globalserve.net>...
>Not meaning to drag this on and on...
>
>But I missed some posts and I would like to know what the consensus
>was as to which html worked best

Someone tried to post concerning getting it to work in as many browsers as
possible, and was immediately flamed.  *BE WARNED.*  (this is for your own
protection!!!)

>and was simplest to use for ascii
>art? I have started a page about ascii art as signatures for a writers
>newsletter. Anyway, I have posted a few sigs from the regulars of this
>newsgroup as examples. One or more of my own will go up as well. I
>have used the <pre> and </pre> codes and they seem to work.

<pre> is the generally accepted mode, yes.

>One problem I have found is that my browser will not let me change to
>the fixedsys font. It sticks with courier new no matter what ways I
>have tried to trick it. *sigh*  I use Netscape and IExplorer anyone
>know a better way?

Try this (I think it can go anywhere in the page, but in the <HEAD> would be
better I think):

<STYLE type="text/css">
<!--
PRE { font-family : fixedsys, monospaced; }
-->
</STYLE>

That should show any text in PRE tags in Fixedsys (and, should the machine
not have fixedsys, in a browser-appointed 'monospaced' font).  The
'type="text/css"' is so that it will be HTML4.0 allowed (at least, when
checking my pages, W3 validator yelled at me without it <g>)

Note this is a cascading style sheet code so browsers that don't support it
or have them disabled will still see them in Courier (or whatever their
default is).

>>BKNambo
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Thanks for the plonks, aardvarko!

P.S. Frogstein would like to wish you many ants for many years to come!

Pete Casso wrote:
> 
> You were responding to the same html articles, Veronicastein! By the
> same token, I suggest that you are in the wrong newsgroup as well!
> 

As long as you were discussing "how to present ascii art in html
documents" you were at least somewhat on-topic.

When you started to discuss "how to make html documents that 100% of the
browsers can read" you became off-topic. A more suitable place for
*that* discussion is comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html (and I think
you might enjoy that group - it is very "flammable").

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Pete Casso wrote:
> Again, I suggest that you question your pretentious judgement calls on
> what is on topic and what is not.

I think most of the people here would agree that in this group, called
alt.ascii-art

* Discussions about ascii art is on-topic
* Discussions about html as it applies to the presentation of ascii art
  is on-topic
* Discussions about authoring html for the world wide web, without any
  specific connection to ascii art, is off-topic

In another group, called comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

* Discussions about ascii art is off-topic
* Discussions about html as it applies to the presentation of ascii art
  is on-topic
* Discussions about authoring html for the world wide web, without any
  specific connection to ascii art, is on-topic

Which part of the above do you have trouble understanding?

> The html discussion thread that I
> initiated (only one of several on this newsgroup) has well over twenty
> entries, people won't submit that many entries if they consider it off
> topic.

That is not the part that I was calling off-topic. The part I was calling
off-topic was the one post where you wrote:

| Still curious what it would take to write html code for close to 100% of
| websurfers, I visited the list of all available browsers at
|
| http://browserwatch.internet.com/browsers.html
| 
| The list contains some 50 browsers for 5 OSs: Amiga, Mac, OS/2, Unix,
| Windows, and miscellaneous computing platforms.
| 
| That means that you would need to comply with close to 100 browser
| _versions_ including finding workarounds for the bugs in the browsers
| themselves, if that is possible at all, shudder ...

I see *no* connection to ascii art in it.


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Pete Casso wrote:
> 
> The connection to ascii art, my dear, is that we want to post it on the
> web with html to an as large audience as possible. That's stated in one
> line, your long winded theorems are unnecessary.
> 

*yawn*

> And if you really object to just one of my articles, why don't you spend
> your energy on the money, sex, and what have you in aaa, there are many
> of those flying around, free for the grabs for you to flame and be happy
> with.
> 

Really? I don't see any.

*plonk*

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Zero issue related content in that response, ran out of arguments?

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>Zero issue related content in that response, ran out of arguments?

[plonk]

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Ojoshiro <ojo...@earthling.net> ASCII art 24 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso wrote:
> 
> My dear Veronicastein,
> 
> Again, I suggest that you question your pretentious judgement calls on
> what is on topic and what is not. The html discussion thread that I
> initiated (only one of several on this newsgroup) has well over twenty
> entries, people won't submit that many entries if they consider it off
> topic.

Yes, HTML is off topic, all ASCII-Artists should worry about is the
proper 
use of <TT></TT> <BR> <PRE></PRE> and maybe some mime-types.

BTW, All browsers should act the same on standardized HTML. Plugins and
fancy stuff are not HTML and HTML is NOT meant to make nice-looking
pages.
It's a subset of SGML and it's meant to order information...

If you want to continue on it with me, fine, but send the reply to me,
and
not to this newsgroup.

Thanks.

Ojoshiro.

> I suggest too, that you are much happier in flammable newsgroups, since
> you like to initiate and wallow in your daily flaming exercises, whereas
> poor me, I only throw them back to you  :-))
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Seal do Mar <l33...@alfa.ist.utl.pt> ASCII art 24 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso (pet...@sympatico.ca) wrote:
> The connection to ascii art, my dear, is that we want to post it on the
> web with html to an as large audience as possible. That's stated in one
> line, your long winded theorems are unnecessary.

> And if you really object to just one of my articles, why don't you spend
> your energy on the money, sex, and what have you in aaa, there are many
> of those flying around, free for the grabs for you to flame and be happy
> with.

	HO HO!!!

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Donovan <bak...@gwtc.net> ASCII art 24 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Here's an idea end, this thread and start a new one...*S*


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Ojoshiro <ojo...@earthling.net> wrote:
>Pete Casso wrote:
>> 
>> My dear Veronicastein,
>> 
>> Again, I suggest that you question your pretentious judgement calls on
>> what is on topic and what is not. The html discussion thread that I
>> initiated (only one of several on this newsgroup) has well over twenty
>> entries, people won't submit that many entries if they consider it off
>> topic.

>Yes, HTML is off topic, all ASCII-Artists should worry about is the
>proper 
>use of <TT></TT> <BR> <PRE></PRE> and maybe some mime-types.


Is it time for another new subgroup alt.ascii-art.html ?

Bye,

Not meaning to drag this on and on...

But I missed some posts and I would like to know what the consensus
was as to which html worked best and was simplest to use for ascii
art? I have started a page about ascii art as signatures for a writers
newsletter. Anyway, I have posted a few sigs from the regulars of this
newsgroup as examples. One or more of my own will go up as well. I
have used the <pre> and </pre> codes and they seem to work.

One problem I have found is that my browser will not let me change to
the fixedsys font. It sticks with courier new no matter what ways I
have tried to trick it. *sigh*  I use Netscape and IExplorer anyone
know a better way?

Btw, for those wanting to look the page is not officially done yet
(its for an issue coming out in about 2 weeks) but you can peek at it
at: http://members.xoom.com/ldb/ascii.htm  Anyone whose sig I have
used who objects please let me know and I have no problem to remove
them/ replace them. Not that I expect anyone will have a problem with
the extra bit of promotion for their websites. 

Take care, 

Laura


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More purposeful than a subgroup are zones that are free from the
asciigangsteins!

    ,,
   ( ">     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!
 ,(=>)=>   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/
(  ^^    'stein movies, 'stein games and more!

All right, all right, I relent. 'Tis more fun to have a decent argument
(but NOT a flame war) then to just wonder if you responded...

>Thanks for the plonks, aardvarko!

Anytime, ;)

>P.S. Frogstein would like to wish you many ants for many years to come!

[BUUUUUURP]



On an entirely different note, would it be feasible (in everyone's
opinions, o'course) to enhance my text-only page with ASCII versions of
my existing graphics? It would almost certainly require tables, though;
don't know how that works in Lynx.

By the way, I haven't uploaded the text-only page to Geo$ities yet...

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Pete Casso wrote in message <354...@sympatico.ca>...
>

Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.fi> ASCII art 25 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Brock Kevin Nambo (new...@earthling.net) wrote:
: SheDragon wrote in message <354...@news.globalserve.net>...
: >One problem I have found is that my browser will not let me change to
: >the fixedsys font. It sticks with courier new no matter what ways I
: >have tried to trick it. *sigh*  I use Netscape and IExplorer anyone
: >know a better way?

: Try this (I think it can go anywhere in the page, but in the <HEAD> would be
: better I think):

Well, I suppose you _can_ put it anywhere, but the standard says it should
be in the head, and the browser can do anything if it sees it somewhere
else. (It could apply the style sheet as intended, ignore the contents,
display the contents as HTML, pop up a flashing red sign that says "Invalid
HTML!", throw a cream pie on your face..)

: <STYLE type="text/css">
: <!--
: PRE { font-family : fixedsys, monospaced; }
: -->
: </STYLE>

: That should show any text in PRE tags in Fixedsys (and, should the machine
: not have fixedsys, in a browser-appointed 'monospaced' font).  The
: 'type="text/css"' is so that it will be HTML4.0 allowed (at least, when
: checking my pages, W3 validator yelled at me without it <g>)

A good thing too, it could just as well have been text/dssl or perhaps
text/x-msss+ (hypothetical Micro$oft Style Sheets Plus) (Aargh! May Eris
save us from such evil..)

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Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>More purposeful than a subgroup are zones that are free from the
>asciigangsteins!

>    ,,
>   ( ">     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!
> ,(=>)=>   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/
>(  ^^    'stein movies, 'stein games and more!

What is needed is the ascii-art.* newsgroups to be freed off
htmlgangsteins.

Bye,

Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Ojoshiro wrote:
>> Yes, HTML is off topic, all ASCII-Artists should worry about is the
>> proper use of <TT></TT> <BR> <PRE></PRE> and maybe some mime-types.


>In the first half of the sentence, you object to discussing html, and
>beginning with the second half of the sentence, you do exactly that.

>Are you able to think at all?

Yep, I am able to think and I think that discussion of HTML, how to
HTML, why to HTML, where to HTML, when to HTML has no place in the 
ascii-art.* newsgroups.

HTML is not Ascii. So use the HTML newsgroups if there are any.

Bye,

Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Thanks for the plonks, aardvarko!

>P.S. Frogstein would like to wish you many ants for many years to come!

If you stopped posting HTML garbage you would not need to be plonked.

I will not plonk you.

Bye,

I am responding to several articles with just this one posting to save
bandwidth, they are all in the same thread anyway.

Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >Ojoshiro wrote:
> >> Yes, HTML is off topic, all ASCII-Artists should worry about is the
> >> proper use of <TT></TT> <BR> <PRE></PRE> and maybe some mime-types.
> >In the first half of the sentence, you object to discussing html, and
> >beginning with the second half of the sentence, you do exactly that.
> >Are you able to think at all? 
> Yep, I am able to think and I think that discussion of HTML, how to

Wow! Colinstein responding for Ojoshirostein! And I thought I was the
only one having multiple egos!  ;-))

Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >Thanks for the plonks, aardvarko!
> >P.S. Frogstein would like to wish you many ants for many years to come!
> If you stopped posting HTML garbage you would not need to be plonked.

Ah! Reversal of facts typical for the asciigangsteins! I was not
plonked, nor did I do any plonking myself either. aardvarko did the
plonking for me, those who were plonked were Veronicastein and
Ojoshirostein. Veronicastein was plonked because of running out of
arguments and therefore posting a response with zero issue related
content. Ojoshirostein was plonked because of contradicting himself in
one and the same line.

Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> What is needed is the ascii-art.* newsgroups to be freed off
> htmlgangsteins.

Good luck with that proposal, others will continue posting html in aaa,
with or without you agreeing with it, with or without me doing it.

On the other proposal of establishing new aa groups, again good luck
with that one too! The community can barely support two aa groups,
rec.aa is dead, aaaa has more spam and FAQ postings than signal. 

It is a lot better to have one strong group than several weak ones. I
think that elsewhere they call it rightsizing.

        No joke!
       /
    ,,
   ( ">     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!
 ,(=>)=>   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/
(  ^^    'stein movies, 'stein games and more!

Ilmari Karonen wrote in message <6ht386$5a0$2...@tron.sci.fi>...
>Brock Kevin Nambo (new...@earthling.net) wrote:
>: SheDragon wrote in message <354...@news.globalserve.net>...
>: >One problem I have found is that my browser will not let me change to
>: >the fixedsys font. It sticks with courier new no matter what ways I
>: >have tried to trick it. *sigh*  I use Netscape and IExplorer anyone
>: >know a better way?
>
>: Try this (I think it can go anywhere in the page, but in the <HEAD> would
be
>: better I think):
>
>Well, I suppose you _can_ put it anywhere, but the standard says it should
>be in the head, and the browser can do anything if it sees it somewhere
>else. (It could apply the style sheet as intended, ignore the contents,
>display the contents as HTML, pop up a flashing red sign that says "Invalid
>HTML!", throw a cream pie on your face..)


Well, I put it in <!-- --> marks for stupid browsers, so nothign like that
*should* happen (I've seen if you don't, indexes like AltaVista add it and
show it.  Ick.)

>: <STYLE type="text/css">
>: <!--
>: PRE { font-family : fixedsys, monospaced; }
>: -->
>: </STYLE>
>
>: That should show any text in PRE tags in Fixedsys (and, should the
machine
>: not have fixedsys, in a browser-appointed 'monospaced' font).  The
>: 'type="text/css"' is so that it will be HTML4.0 allowed (at least, when
>: checking my pages, W3 validator yelled at me without it <g>)
>
>A good thing too, it could just as well have been text/dssl or perhaps
>text/x-msss+ (hypothetical Micro$oft Style Sheets Plus) (Aargh! May Eris
>save us from such evil..)


Netscape, I believe, has their own stylesheet technology. :(


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Brock Kevin Nambo <new...@earthling.net> ASCII art 25 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Ben Norwood wrote in message ...
>[2] Perhaps some asciis of Mozilla would help get this thread back
>on-topic if it has strayed...

I hope Outlook Express doesn't do anything wacky to him... (yes it's
gifscii.  I can't do ascart well)

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Angie Li <ang...@wpi.edu> ASCII art 25 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Hi guys.. I was wondering if any of you can help me out.  
I am looking for a sig sized winnie and piglet.  
if anyone can help me, i would really appreciate it.

thanx!

                                                         
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Oh well...

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Brock Kevin Nambo wrote in message ...
>Ben Norwood wrote in message ...
>>[2] Perhaps some asciis of Mozilla would help get this thread back
>>on-topic if it has strayed...
>
>I hope Outlook Express doesn't do anything wacky to him... (yes it's
>gifscii.  I can't do ascart well)
[snip munged]

Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> ASCII art 26 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Tim Park wrote: (by email)
> Pete Casso (pet...@sympatico.ca) writes:
> > Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> >> Yep, I am able to think and I think that discussion of HTML, how to
> > Wow! Colinstein responding for Ojoshirostein! And I thought I was 
> > the only one having multiple egos!  ;-))
> If you post in a public forum, people are free to respond to your
> comments to other people.

I have been viciously flamed by the asciigangsteins, yourself included,
for doing such self-explanatory things. I have added the winking smiley
exactly for that reason, you missed that.

> Please read up on the term plonk.

The plonking issue itself is ridiculous, I said that. At the same time,
the concomitant committed by Colinstein is a serious issue, I said that
too.

You lack perception in your little reading abilities.

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Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>On 25 Apr 1998, Colin Douthwaite wrote:

>: Yep, I am able to think and I think that discussion of HTML, how to
>: HTML, why to HTML, where to HTML, when to HTML has no place in the 
>: ascii-art.* newsgroups.
>: 
>: HTML is not Ascii. So use the HTML newsgroups if there are any.


>IMHO this discussion should span both sets of groups, as it covers both
>ascii art and html - the thread is devoted to displaying ascii pictures on
>the web, which is a html-based medium that often prefers [1] displaying
>stuff in proportional fonts and ignoring whitespace...

>Just my 0.02p worth of coal to add to the furnace :)

But this is not the Web...it is Usenet and its newsgroups. What people put
on websites is their own business.

There has been plenty of discussion of the use of HTML in the newsgroup
news.admin.usenet.net-abuse because so many people think it is OK to use
HTML in Usenet newsgroup postings...not just in the Ascii Art group.

Bye,

Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> ASCII art 26 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
> But this is not the Web...it is Usenet and its newsgroups. What people > put on websites is their own business.
> 
> There has been plenty of discussion of the use of HTML in the 
> newsgroup news.admin.usenet.net-abuse because so many people think it 
> is OK to use HTML in Usenet newsgroup postings...not just in the Ascii 
> Art group.

And that's because more and more of Usenet is becoming html aware ...
why stop progress?

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03  Frogstein and Birdstein - The Victory March                     03
04  by Pete Casso 970718 Revision 980425                            04
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08          ~ ~ ~   Long Live the htmlgangsteins!   ~ ~ ~/          08
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11   ,oo     ,oo     ,oo     ,oo     ,oo              /             11
12  oo -)  ,oo -)  ,oo -)  ,oo -)  ,oo -)     _==_   /              12
13   -)" ,oo -)" ,oo -)" ,oo -)" ,oo -)"      ( ">  /               13
14   " ,oo -)" ,oo -)" ,oo -)" ,oo -)"        (> )>/                14
15    (  -)"  (  -)"  (  -)"  (  -)"           ^^                   15
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Colin Douthwaite wrote in message
<893...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>...
>But this is not the Web...it is Usenet and its newsgroups. What people put
>on websites is their own business.

It is not off-topic in this group to discuss the implementation of ASCII art
in various media.  HTML included.

And it doesn't signify that this isn't an "HTML group" because we here have
more expertise at using it *in this way*--for example,
alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb is more on-topic to writing an aanvvvish
novel than some rec.arts.writing, and more on-topic to discussing aanvvv
chat (even though this isn't IRC.. it is Usenet and its newsgroups) than
alt.mirc, even if an aanvvv chat breaks the rules of aanvvvism for
convenience or innovation.
(I use that example only because I've seen it before.)

[Now, I forget my point.  Ack.]

>There has been plenty of discussion of the use of HTML in the newsgroup
>news.admin.usenet.net-abuse because so many people think it is OK to use
>HTML in Usenet newsgroup postings...not just in the Ascii Art group.

"Use" of html.. not 'discussion' of HTML.   totally different concept.  I'm
totally against posting in html, even if this newsreader screws up and does
it by accident sometimes. <arg.> (oops, I mean [arg.], can't have HTML here
can I now? <g> i mean [g]).

&gt;&gt;BKNambo
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Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.fi> ASCII art 26 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Colin Douthwaite (cfb...@southern.co.nz) wrote:
: But this is not the Web...it is Usenet and its newsgroups. What people put
: on websites is their own business.

I was going to drop out of this discussion with my FAQ suggestion, but I
have to disagree with the above. Yes, this is Usenet, not the Web. That
doesn't mean this _discussion_ would have to be about Usenet. In fact the
subject should pretty much tell you it isn't about Usenet.

Although looking at the subject I just realized that this is the one
thread that was indeed off-topic, but it has drifted a lot since then.
Anyway, what people put on their websites is indeed their business. But
if what they put there is ascii art, it also touches this group.

I do agree that we don't need these extensive HTML discussions here, it
should be enough to tell people to slap <PRE></PRE> on it and go to ciwah
for further advice. That's exactly why I suggested the new FAQ entries.

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/ ' 4(_,-_,-"_,/.'   `'--' ,------------------------' own. If you want me to
"`-(_,-"" `-' (,' itz      | make some for you too, you should pay for them!

>    .----------(.'---',)----------.
>   | mailto:ojo...@mindless.com  |
>   |   http://ojoshiro.neroc.nl    |
>   |          --oO(_)Oo--          |
>   |       Ojoshiro fuit hic       |
>    "-----------------------------"

Look, look, look! The cyber business card of Ojoshirostein! Even the
cyber post office at "mindless.com" has made the appropriate
accommodation!

Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 27 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>On 25 Apr 1998, Colin Douthwaite wrote:

>: Yep, I am able to think and I think that discussion of HTML, how to
>: HTML, why to HTML, where to HTML, when to HTML has no place in the 
>: ascii-art.* newsgroups.
>: 
>: HTML is not Ascii. So use the HTML newsgroups if there are any.


>IMHO this discussion should span both sets of groups, as it covers both
>ascii art and html - the thread is devoted to displaying ascii pictures on
>the web, which is a html-based medium that often prefers [1] displaying
>stuff in proportional fonts and ignoring whitespace...

>Just my 0.02p worth of coal to add to the furnace :)

>--Ben

>[1] Mentioning no names...Nutscrap, Internet Exploder [2]

>[2] Perhaps some asciis of Mozilla would help get this thread back
>on-topic if it has strayed... [3]


Modzilla ?...Nope, make that Godzilla !


                     ASCII-GODZILLA...
              The ultimate virtual weapon!


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Bye,

Ojoshiro <ojo...@_NOSPAM_mindless.com> ASCII art 27 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso wrote:

> Are you able to think at all?
> 
> Pete

Pete,

             `\|/'     .---------------.
             ,'Y`.   _( To think....    )_________
            )|._.|( ( Doesn't that involve little )
            /(___)\  ""( little lightbulbs over )"
           (       )    ""( My head ??? )"""""""
            `..-.,'        """"""""""""" 
              |"|
           .--' `--.

I think not...


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                      "*"

				Ghee! Yes, I can!
        Or at least, I ASCII while I nag =)


peace .-+-.
     /  |  \
     \,'|`./
      `-+-' man!


Ojoshiro!




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  |          --oO(_)Oo--          |
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Ojoshiro <ojo...@_NOSPAM_mindless.com> ASCII art 28 Apr 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Pete Casso wrote:
> 
> >    .----------(.'---',)----------.
> >   | mailto:ojo...@mindless.com  |
> >   |   http://ojoshiro.neroc.nl    |
> >   |          --oO(_)Oo--          |
> >   |       Ojoshiro fuit hic       |
> >    "-----------------------------"
> 
> Look, look, look! The cyber business card of Ojoshirostein! Even the
> cyber post office at "mindless.com" has made the appropriate
> accommodation!

I'm not a stein, mug-head!

This is a stein!

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  <""  "">|/ 
  |""--""|n-.
  |      |"`.|
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  | (  ) |.-:'
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      ------`-.|      .-'------
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   .----------(.'---',)----------.
  | mailto:ojo...@mindless.com  |
  |   http://ojoshiro.neroc.nl    |
  |          --oO(_)Oo--          |
  |       Ojoshiro fuit hic       |
   "-----------------------------"

On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:03:03 +0100, Ojoshiro
<ojoshiro@_NOSPAM_mindless.com> wrote:

[ snip ]

>I'm not a stein, mug-head!
>
>This is a stein!
>
>           /|
>     __   : :o
>  <""  "">|/ 
>  |""--""|n-.
>  |      |"`.|
>  | .--. |  ||
>  | (  ) |.-:'
>  |  ""  |/"
>  (      ) Ojo 98
>   ""--""

That's just what I've been thinking myself, and yours is lovely.


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Spunk1111 <spu...@aol.com> ASCII art 9 May 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
>From: c...@pentagon.io.com (Cyberspace Buddha)
>Message-id: <6hliv0$ek3$2...@nntp-2.io.com>

Does anyone else beside me find something irritatingly
wrong with someone adding three characters to a picture,
and then deleting someone else's signature and replacing it 
with their own????

Here are the  pics...
         __________________
        /\  ______________ \
       /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
      /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
     /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
    /:/Z/___________/:/Z/  \:\ \
   /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
   \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
    \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
     \:\ \     \:\ \_\;\ \_____\;\ \
      \:\ \     \:\___\;\ \_________\
       \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\;\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
        \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
         \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
          \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
           \::/Z/_______itz__\/Z/
            \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/  ,jsw

        __________________
       /\  ______________ \
      /::\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \
     /:/\:\ \        /:/\:\ \
    /:/Z/\:\ \      /:/Z/\:\ \
   /:/Z/__\_\_\____/:/Z/  \:\ \
  /:/Z/____________\/Z/    \:\ \
  \:\ \ZZZZZZZZZZZZ/\ \     \:\ \
   \:\ \     \:\ \ \:\ \     \:\ \
    \:\ \     \:\ \_\:\ \_____\;\ \
     \:\ \     \:\___\:\ \_________\
      \:\ \    /:/ZZZZ\:\ \ZZZZZZZZ/
       \:\ \  /:/Z/    \:\ \  /:/Z/
        \:\ \/:/Z/      \:\ \/:/Z/
         \:\/:/Z/________\;\/:/Z/
          \::/Z/________cb__\/Z/
           \/ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ/


-joan
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 /       joan stark                ASCII ART GALLERY           \
 \   spu...@juno.com    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/ /
  "+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"+.+"

SheDragon <the...@yahoo.com> ASCII art 9 May 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
On 09 May 1998 01:17:03 GMT, spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) wrote:

>>From: c...@pentagon.io.com (Cyberspace Buddha)
>>Message-id: <6hliv0$ek3$2...@nntp-2.io.com>
>
>Does anyone else beside me find something irritatingly
>wrong with someone adding three characters to a picture,
>and then deleting someone else's signature and replacing it 
>with their own????
>

It would be interesting to know at what point someone else's art
becomes changed enough to be given the initials of the diddler. I
don't think 3 characters would be nearly at that point. 

I redid a teapot and cups. Changing characters that were not ascii and
fixing some that didn't work (at least to my eye). The pot and cups do
not look like the original design but for a the rims of the cups and
pot. But I still don't use that one cause I don't feel it belongs to
me completly. I could work on a new teapot and cups and end up with a
very similar design and that would feel fully mine. 

Who is cb?

SheDragon

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Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 11 May 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
SheDragon <the...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On 09 May 1998 01:17:03 GMT, spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) wrote:

>>>From: c...@pentagon.io.com (Cyberspace Buddha)
>>>Message-id: <6hliv0$ek3$2...@nntp-2.io.com>
>>
>>Does anyone else beside me find something irritatingly
>>wrong with someone adding three characters to a picture,
>>and then deleting someone else's signature and replacing it 
>>with their own????
>>

>It would be interesting to know at what point someone else's art
>becomes changed enough to be given the initials of the diddler. I
>don't think 3 characters would be nearly at that point. 

Being very fond of diddling I am always very nervous about this 
topic but...if I have spent a lot of time, and, produced a picture 
which looks quite new I do put my initials on it. Otherwise I use a 
shared version like "me/you" or "after/you". 

The following diddle only deserved an "after" rating because my 
diddling input combining two already existing pictures, both by jgs, 
was minimal:  


         |""-..._____
         '-.____    _````"""""'`|
             \  ``` ``"---... _ |
             |              /  /#\
             }--..______..-{   ###
            }}}}} _   _ {{{{{
            }}}}  6   6  {{{{
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          {{{{{{\  -=-  /}}}}}}
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    after/jgs      `@`


>Who is cb?

Not me.

Bye,

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