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From: Jeremy Penner <pzp655@freenet.mb.ca>
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/09/25
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On 19 Sep 1996, Harry Samuel Renkert V wrote:

> Christine Mackley (clm1948@sprynet.com) wrote:
> : On 8 Jul 1996 07:07:27 GMT,
> : matt.granberry@windmill.com@windmillbbs.com    (Matt Granberry) wrote:
> : >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.
> 
I use a bit of ASCII art in my page.  It's the font in Netscape, right?  
Well, if you just put <PRE> and </PRE> around the entire ASCII, it will 
do it in a perfect ASCII font.  (I know this works for Internet Explorer, 
anyways, pretty darned sure for Netscape too)

Later,
Jeremy Penner

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