Re: pre and center tags
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 26 Apr 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Brock Kevin Nambo <new...@earthling.net> wrote: >Veronica Karlsson wrote in message <354...@on.spammer>... >>I get the impression that most of the people >>there regard ascii art as either "obsolete" or "an obstruction of >>accessibility"... >Which is why they recommend showing it in separate text files rather than >inline. My page uses images of it (I think--haven't touched the thing in >ages), and text behind for browsers that don't support images, like NEtscape >and Lynx. (I also put linx in for textonly browsers too, so they can see in >txt form) >>> HTML is not Ascii Art but by continually discussing it here it encourages >>> others to think that it is Ascii Art. Bah ! Harumph ! >>> >> >>Html source is ascii (or very close to it anyway). >HTML should ALWAYS be in ascii. Any extended characters are supposed to be >represented through character elements like ÿ (named entities) or >&7855; (unicode entities) although foreign alphabet sets usually ignore this >and stick to their own native encodings. Excuse me, HTML is _NOT_ Ascii Art. This is an Ascii Art newsgroup. Bye,
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