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From: Sebastian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?St=F6cker?= <s-stoecker@surfhome.de>
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CJRandall <colin@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Sebastian writes

[...]
> hi Sebastian
> i knew 'monaco' was specific but not 'fixed'
> nor that 'monospace' is platform independent

Hi :)
'Fixed' is a standard font for X (at least on my Debian GNU/Linux 
system).
'Monospace' is defined as _the_ generic family name for fixed-width 
fonts in CCS: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#font-family

> however ... i have found cases where the web-application
> programs being used responded only to one or other of:
>  fixed || monospace

That's because they don't follow the definition, then. :)

As for your example (http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk/art-glry.htm):
Since you defined "fixed,monaco,monospace" my browsers displayed the 
<pre>-code in 'fixed' (a specific font!), which is correct.
The generic family name is defined by the last value.

> i looked at your code http://www.ascii-art.net/ascii.css
> saw it was fine and neat with "Courier New" suggested as
> the "best-viewed-with" font
> 
> the only odd thing was SamSpade1.14 made it look like
> "td.footer {" had a closing brace '}' missing but that
> may have just been me closing the connection too soon?

,---http://www.ascii-art.net/ascii.css
| [...]
| td.footer {
| font-size: smaller;
| }
`---
Seems okay. :)

> obascii++ (i liked this one of your's SSt?)
> 
>               ___   /\   ___
>             ,' `.`-'..`-',' `.
>            (  |\ \      / /|  )
>             `.`|) : __ : (|','
>               \_  | -- |  _/
>              ( _`.|    |,'_ )
>               `.\ `.__,' /,'
>      _ __ _     `..____..'      _ __ _
>  ___(_(__)_\_____)/    \(______/_(__)_)____
> |SSt `|\|`|      \/)__(\/      |' |/|'     |
> [...]

Thank you. Never got any feedback on that one. :)

ob-ASCII: (repost, because I'm too laz.. tired right now)
                               ___.. _.-.
                           _.-' ._.-' _.'
                       _.-' ._.-'_..-'`.`. 
                    ,-',--.''_.-'_,_,     `.
                   '_,(._,'`-.._.-' \,_  `. \ 
          _    \ _,'_,,`.  ,',  ``--'.       `-._
     _   / `  ,'\     `._;,_ '        `      
    / `  \   _   \  .     `-`-._       
    \   _ `-' `.  `-'           `.__  
     `-' `. __,'                    ``--.._
       __,'


Sebastian :)
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