Re: WARNING: Control Codes
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 7 May 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine (dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk) wrote: >In article <4mai7i$75...@orm.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite ><cfb...@southern.co.nz> writes >>>why does this sound like a crock of shit? you can post other HTML'ed >>>items, why not color codes? You better explain... >> >>Dunno what your point is about posting HTML items. Do they actually >>contain any control codes or machine code ? >Duh -- no. The whole point of HTML is that every piece >of formatting, and every nonstandard character, in the display >produced is described in source text which is 100% bog >standard ascii. HTML is Bog standard ascii ? Great...no problems. Sorry I have ignored HTML and all its wonders. One day I shall perhaps explore its joys and delights. :-) So...the moral of all this is stick to Bog Standard Ascii and we will have no screams on alt.ascii-art like: " Please turn off the colour (color) ! " and " Please uuencode ascii animations before posting. " Bye,
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