X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,caeb065726bb6bf8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: Joan's Animated Pixie (Hold spacebar down) Date: 1997/04/26 Message-ID: <3362715C.794BDF32@sm.luth.se.nospam>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 237579689 References: <5jp156$gbd$1@alpha8.curtin.edu.au> Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art edias@cc.curtin.edu.au wrote: > [ 8< 8< ] > Ummmm, well I doubt Dear old Microsoft is going to fully support > Java. I believe that is why you can't view those Java animations with > Explorer. From memory, MS uses Active X (or for the less sexy name > OLE 3) for its applications. Since it is the most popular Operating > System around, MS tries to keep its own standards. Hmmmm..... keeping their own standards is not the way to increase popularity! Especially not now when the internet is getting popular and more people are beginning to feel the consequences of incompatibility. They may be the most popular now but things can change _fast_ in the computer world. > > I still think copying the space-bar ascii animation to > notepad, then adjusting your window size or adding > lines as necessary to align the picture for page-down > works quite well! Oh, it probably does, I just got scared off after my first attempt when I ruined my news history and had to do a lot of work to get back to where I was before.... (and the little I saw was very fast... too fast...) -- :) Veronica Karlsson ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ ) ( llizard's animation site: http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )