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From: ap504@chebucto.ns.ca (bryan mosher)
Subject: Re: Posting ascii art on the web
Date: 1997/02/11
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	I am one that got a homepage with alot of ansi art on it...   But 
you must rember.  there is alot of linx users that don't get to see any 
gif files.  I am one of them.  most freenets make there users use linx so 
there for there is alot of us(7000 just on the freenet I am with).  If I 
converted them all :
1. it would take alot more room.
2. linix servers and othere non graghic servers will never see them.
3. no more people looking for good .sig ansi art.
4. we will lose all the sysops that use the ansi for there bbses

not to menchen most of the ansi lovers know how to change a window font.


PeteCasso (petecasso@aol.com) wrote:


: There are a few readers of this newsgroup who post ascii art on their web
: pages, and this article is addressed to them.

: 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.

: With regard to my specialty, miniatures for cartoons, the gif format has
: the added benefit of pretty well absolute control over the font issue. In
: other words, no more problems with generating (and optimizing) ascii art
: in, say, Monaco, and the viewer viewing it with a different font, say,
: Courier. The font issue is less of an issue with large(r) size ascii art,
: but with miniatures, it can make or break certain visual effects in
: somewhat unpredictable ways.

: Moreover, gif has the ability for animation that can be read by any
: browser without any plug-ins, although older browsers do not strictly
: adhere to the gif standard for animation. But newer browser versions are
: becoming quite exact in this regard.

: Comments invited.
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