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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Apr 1998.
Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?

Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?

.----- On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:35:26 GMT, I posted:
|.----- On 14 Apr 1998 18:23:04 GMT, Ilmari Karonen posted:
||
||In conclusion, most "WYSIWYG" HTML editors I've seen suck large boulders
||through several kilometers of garden hose, and yours seems to be no
||exception to the rule.
||
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|
|hehe - the 'tag soup' as you put it has been mentioned to me a while ago, and I am no longer using
|the editor, but as the Ascii Gallery hasn`t been updated since then (<g>) it`s still using the
|messy HTML. My other ascii site is done in NotePad, so works a bit better.
|
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Ahh - you were talking about my index page wern`t you <g>
Yes, that was done with the editor ... thanks for the stylesheet enabled version :)

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From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?
Date: 1998/04/17
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