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From: llizard <cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: How to make animation????
Date: 1997/07/29
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miK wrote:
> 
> llizard <cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca> wrote:
[snip of javascript template]
> 
> Thanks ejm,
> 
> Nice script you posted. And the detailed instructions really helped me
> - being a non-programmer - a lot!
> 
> Anything works now except for 1 major problem I'm having. I have
> really no idea how to attach a monospaced (non-proportional) font to
> the ascii I put inside the scroll box. You can imagine the way
> "Helvetica" tortures my brainchild ;)
> 
> (Don't know why it's Helvetica but it is.)
> 
> *******************
> 
> Should I do this:
> (1) In html with my editor (Arachnophilia - a text editor)
> 
> I've tagged the whole script with <font face="courier"></font> and
> tried <TEXTAREA FACE="Fixedsys" NAME=t ROWS=7 COLS=70></TEXTAREA> but
> this didn't work.
> 
> (2) In the javascript (don't no where - looks like chinese to me)
> 
> (3) In my browser (MSiE 3.02)
> Checked some menu's - none of them seems to fit.
> 
> (4) In the java plug-in the browser uses ???
> 
> TIA,
> 
> mic
> 
> >>Take one of the ff out to respond to proper email address<<

Hi mic;

Glad you like my template. I am also a non-programmer and have taken
someone else's javascript animation and inserted my own drawings. So I
basically know about as much as you do about the whole thing.

However, the problem you are having is not one you can fix readily. It
is the fault of your browser (MSiE 3.02). I don't know why the explorer
insists on using a proportional font inside the scroll box. You'll have
to ask them. You can put fixed width font into your animation til you're
blue in the face but MSiE will continue to automatically switch your
font to a proportional one. Andreas Freise says it best on his page
(http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~freise/ascii/anim/index.html)

Start quote .................................................
#              |     #
#                    #            The animations are based on 
#                    #            a simple JavaScript program. 
#                   (#            Newer browsers can deal with
#                  ()#            that. Unfortunately, the MS
#                .--.#            Internet Explorer uses a
#               __||_#            proportional font in the
#              ~)__ |#            textbox. 
#_____________.o _(*)#
#~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~< >~ ~ #            Why use a MS product in the
#              |     #            first place ?!
#                    #
.....................................................end quote

As far as I know, the javascript animations only work in Netscape
Navigator 3.0


I tried e-mailing but don't know if it actually went through. Which f do
I take away?? HOw many fs??? What the... (excuse me, that was rude)  We
are having newsfeed and e-mail problems still.


NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent";
its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
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