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From: dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw
Subject: Re: Help save ascii art from destruction by variable fonts
Date: 1996/12/26
Message-ID: <59tple$cnr@reader.seed.net.tw>#1/1
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organization: Cameo Communications, Inc.
keywords: HTML, tags, hypertext, ASCII art, PRE, XMP
newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
originator: dski@
summary: Another one you can use is XMP.


>From L Michaels (afn49349@afn.org), we heard --

> The PRE tag in HTML is defined such that browsers are supposed to use
> fixed width fonts.  PRE is used to create tables if your browser doesn't
> support such functions.  If a browser is not using fixed width fonts for
> text inside a PRE tag, then something is wrong with that browser and it is
> not following the HTML standard.  People should complain to the browser
> manufacturer about that.

If PRE doesn't do it, XMP should. But you should still complain. Loudly.

Dan Strychalski
dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw