X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c49a4e4d310180c6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Vladimir A. Pertsel" Subject: Re: Help save ascii art from destruction by variable fonts Date: 1996/12/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 205878527 references: <59ot4e$cu9@shiva.usa.net> <59p71b$5ok@huron.eel.ufl.edu> x-sender: voldemar@dream content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: Sagantec (microprocessor chip design software) mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.ascii-art I dare to say, that the appropriate WWW browser for alt.ascii-art is lynx. It is free, and I have chosen it for speed. Besides, it skips all the advertisments! It never distorts ASCII pictures. General Lynx information: http://lynx.browser.org/ Lynx source distribution: http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/sources.html Lynx binary distribution: http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/binaries.html Lynx 2.6 documentation: http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx/2.6/ On 24 Dec 1996, Laura Michaels wrote: > John Debruyn (jdebruyn@access.usa.net) wrote: > > I put the ascii art up on the Web using the HTML 
 code.  My browser
> > which is set to a fixed width font set picked the item up really well,
> > but again the other beta testers came up with unintelligible mix mash.
> > You can take a look at what I am working with at:
> 
> > http://www.usa.net/~jdebruyn/postcard.html
> 
> 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.
> 
> L Michaels
> http://members.aol.com/lauram3017/index.html
> 
> 

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