Re: ASCII Animation blues..

In article <33D...@nospam.sm.luth.se>, Veronica Karlsson
<e93...@nospam.sm.luth.se> wrote:
> 
> Curtis Roecks wrote:
> >
> > Hello ASCII animators!
> >
> > I hope somebody reads this.  There is so much spam trash in this
> > newsgroup that it may be abandoned!
> >
> > I made this ASCII animation in java. ("Borrowed" from some of the
> > very clever animators in this newsgroup!) but it has problems
> > in IE.  - not just the porportional font thing, but it has
> > run time Java errors that stop it cold.
> >
> > It seems to work in Navigator (at least on my Sparc station in UNIX)
> >
> > Any clues what is wrong?
> >
> > http://www.free.cts.com/sd/r/rrc/java.html
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Curtis Roecks
>
> hmmm.... I get an error message when I try to load that page... My
> Netscape claims it doesn't exist... :(
> 
> Veronica Karlsson

It's working just fine for me in Navigator. But as far as I know, these
javascript animations don't work in IE. Contact IE about it and ask why.
Maybe the runtime thing is the same problem as Netscape Gold not being
able to view anything with more than 750 lines.

But Andreas Freise says it best:

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#                    #            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 ?!

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