X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: fd588,689b32c842d59eb5
X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public
From: Veronica Karlsson <e93-vkn@nospam.sm.luth.se>
Subject: Re: ASCII Animation blues..
Date: 1997/07/27
Message-ID: <33DA7C57.2781E494@nospam.sm.luth.se>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 259174511
References: <33D7DBCF.2781E494@gat.com> <33D8F697.41C67EA6@nospam.sm.luth.se>
 <33D91094.3D62@freent.toronto.on.ca>
Organization: Junk e-mail gladly reported (I have got credit for chucking
 several spammers out of their accounts)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation


llizard wrote:
> 
> In article <33D8F697.41C67EA6@nospam.sm.luth.se>, Veronica Karlsson
> <e93-vkn@nospam.sm.luth.se> wrote:
> >
> > Curtis Roecks wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello ASCII animators!
> > >
> > > I hope somebody reads this.  There is so much spam trash in this
> > > newsgroup that it may be abandoned!
> > >
> > > I made this ASCII animation in java. ("Borrowed" from some of the
> > > very clever animators in this newsgroup!) but it has problems
> > > in IE.  - not just the porportional font thing, but it has
> > > run time Java errors that stop it cold.
> > >
> > > It seems to work in Navigator (at least on my Sparc station in UNIX)
> > >
> > > Any clues what is wrong?
> > >
> > > http://www.free.cts.com/sd/r/rrc/java.html
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > --
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Curtis Roecks
> >
> > hmmm.... I get an error message when I try to load that page... My
> > Netscape claims it doesn't exist... :(
> >
> > Veronica Karlsson
> 
> It's working just fine for me in Navigator. But as far as I know, these
> javascript animations don't work in IE. Contact IE about it and ask why.
> Maybe the runtime thing is the same problem as Netscape Gold not being
> able to view anything with more than 750 lines.

It worked today! :)

(and it looks nice, no errors, but then I never got that 750 line error
anyway...)

> 
> But Andreas Freise says it best:
> 
> start quote...................................
> 
> #                    #            The animations are based on
> #                    #            a simple JavaScript program.
> #                   (#            Newer browsers can deal with
> #                  ()#            that. Unfortunately, the MS
> #                .--.#            Internet Explorer uses a
> #               __||_#            proportional font in the
> #              ~)__ |#            textbox.
> #_____________.o _(*)#
> #~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~< >~ ~ #            Why use a MS product in the
> #              |     #            first place ?!
> 
> ........................................end quote

That is not all, apparently internet explorer also removes all
"unnecessary" space characters too.... :(


-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )