X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,db5e10806433cc77 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: Posting ascii art on the web Date: 1997/02/07 Message-ID: <32FB5C05.41C67EA6@sm.luth.se>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 215103795 references: <19970207050200.AAA10527@ladder01.news.aol.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Solace Computer Society mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.ascii-art x-mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) PeteCasso wrote: > 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. The good things about ascii are: 1. It only takes up a small amount of memory (which gif does not! for people like me who have small accounts this is a very important thing...) 2. It is easy to copy and change in an editor where you can have a large amount of pictures in one file (if you have them as gif you will have to save the whole gif, if you have enough memory, and then copy it all by hand into an editor - which most people will think is just too much work... and you only get about one or two pictures per file...) So I say keep it as ascii! :) Veronica ( e93-vkn@sm.luth.se http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )