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From: matt.granberry@windmill.com@windmillbbs.com    (Matt Granberry)
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/08
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reply-to: matt.granberry@windmill.com@windmillbbs.com    (Matt Granberry)
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In <4rm8hr$4vs@news.nu.edu>, dissel@nunic.nu.edu (David S. Issel - 2144244) writes:
>+------ Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine (dave@xemu.demon.co.uk) wrote: ---
>| In article <4rigs4$ed5@olorin.nask.pl>, "Gl. Insp. Ochrony Srodowiska"
>| <gios@news.nask.pl> writes
>| >Have you any sugestion how put ascii art to ALT section in IMG tag?
>| >
>| >I don't want answer like:
>| ><IMG SRC="smile.gif" ALT=":-)"> 
>| >It's trivial._____________/
>| >                               
>| >I want to put someting like  
>| >     __
>| >   _7 |>
>| >  | _  |
>| >     \ \______,
>| >     /    __  ;
>| >     \  _/  \ )
>| >     | /     |l
>I have this same complaint of Netscape.  On my web pages I include 
>ascii-art as alternatives for many of the images.  This looks great using 
>a text mode browser such as LYNX but looks terrible using Netscape.
>
>The best example of this 
>on my pages is at:  http://nunic.nu.edu/~dissel/mini.html
>
>I don't think it is possible to set this up properly for viewing in 
>Netscape.  Even version 2.0 does not view the alternatives properly.
>
>Have a great day,
>Dave.
	Try setting nutscrape to a monospaced font..