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From: petecasso@aol.com (PeteCasso)
Subject: Re: Posting ascii art on the web
Date: 1997/02/09
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Thanks for the comments. 

I have begun converting  from ascii to gif format on my web pages, the
difference in image quality is tremendous, if the web browser is capable
of image rendering at all (any halfway decent web browser these days *is*
able to display gif/graphics).

I looked into the file size argument and came up with these numbers. Nine
typical html files of 28 KB convert into 43 KB worth of static gif files
(this is with almost all of the gif parameters left in their default
values for posting on the web). In other words, the conversion only
resulted in 1.5 times bigger file sizes on the average. This is a very
small price to pay for the tremendous improvement in image quality.

The size of animated gif files (ascii art movie clips) are of course
bigger, at the present time, the size of the animated gif files on my web
pages are between 7KB and 12 KB, still downloadable within a few seconds.

These ascii art movie clips look like silent Charlie Chaplin movies to me
which are also in black and white. They look cute, but do not provide the
rich multimedia experience with color and sound, that virtually all of us
expect these days.

I have therefore begun thinking of going one step further and create
multimedia ascii art for posting on the web, presumably based on
QuickTime.

Comments invited.
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