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From: edias@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: RE: Posting ascii art on the web
Date: 1997/02/12
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petecasso@aol.com (PeteCasso) writes:

>
>I noticed that posting ascii art on the web in gif format gives a cleaner
>rendering by the various web browsers, Netscape and Internet Explorer
>included. Did you notice that too? I myself am contemplating to gradually
>convert to gif for presenting ascii art on the web.

Well you are certainly correct about gifs allowing you to have more
control over your ascii art. I myself started out using gifs
until I found out about the <PRE> </PRE> statements. However, using
gifs increases the size thereby increasing the time to download your
page. Also there is the chance that gifs will not load, I know
Joan had some trouble getting mine to load at one stage.

On the plus side, well, depending on your point of view, (I personally
find it a minus) people will not be able to copy your ascii pictures
eg for email, to send to newsgroups, or just to collect

Since your cartoons are quite good, I would still like to be able
to distribute them to my friends!

And just a tip for anyone using gifs : the less colours you use, the better
the compression (or in english, the smaller the gif file will be ;)

<Phew> - end of essay!

Anyone else have any thoughts on this topic?

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