colourised ascii

Aaaargh!! I need help! 

I've been colourising my ascii, and in the new browser I'm using it looks
fine. BUT when my fiancee tried the page on a real computer, in Netscape,
it showed up as a page of muddled ascii in proportional font.

I've had a look at the source code for some other colour pages, but you all
know how utterly useless I am at HTML, so as far as I could see I'm not
doing anything wrong. Pfft!  :)  Do I only have to use the pre tag, or is 
there another tag that I have to include to keep the colour AND the fixed 
font? 

Hmm.. I have the feeling I'm sounding more than just a little bit blonde!
:)

I really don't have a clue, and nor does Robbie. :-} The test page 
uploaded already at:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr/colour1.html

If anyone has the time or the inclination, could they possibly have a look
and see what gapingly obvious and stupid faults I'm making this time?! :-)
 
Thanks in advance.

*hugs*

Hayley 
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         ( 6 6 )          ( , , )          ( 9 9 )
 ____,~~.(_(T)_),~~.__,--.{_(Y)_},--.__,--.(_(T)_),--.____
|    "--"       "--"  "--"       "--"  "~~"       "~~"    |
|Hayley J. Wakenshaw (flump AT quadrant DOT xs4all DOT nl)|
|   Flump's Ascii Collection: http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr   |   
|   _,-.    ,-._       _,-.    ,-._        _,-.    ,-._   |   
|__(ooO )__( Ooo)_____(ooO )__( Ooo)______(ooO )__( Ooo)__|  
   ((_) )  ( (_))     ((_) )  ( (_))      ((_) )  ( (_))
    "--"    "--"       "~~"    "~~"        "-~"    "~-"
    i liked things better when i didn't understand them. 
                    - Calvin & Hobbes

Hayley Jane Wakenshaw wrote:
> 
> Aaaargh!! I need help!
> 
> I've been colourising my ascii, and in the new browser I'm using it looks
> fine. BUT when my fiancee tried the page on a real computer, in Netscape,
> it showed up as a page of muddled ascii in proportional font.
> 
> I've had a look at the source code for some other colour pages, but you all
> know how utterly useless I am at HTML, so as far as I could see I'm not
> doing anything wrong. Pfft!  :)  Do I only have to use the pre tag, or is
> there another tag that I have to include to keep the colour AND the fixed
> font?
> 
> Hmm.. I have the feeling I'm sounding more than just a little bit blonde!
> :)
> 
> I really don't have a clue, and nor does Robbie. :-} The test page
> uploaded already at:
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr/colour1.html
> 
> If anyone has the time or the inclination, could they possibly have a look
> and see what gapingly obvious and stupid faults I'm making this time?! :-)
> 

Just a slight mistake. You start your art with a pre tag, which is good,
but you immediatly follow it with a /font tag, which is bad, because it
seems to close the fixed-width font you opened with pre, and continue in
the usual, proportional, font. Here's an example (I hope your newsreader
doesn't interpret this as html):

wrong:
<PRE>
                             </FONT><FONT COLOR="#FF00FF">,v.

right:
<PRE>
                             <FONT COLOR="#FF00FF">,v.

I removed the additional /font tags for you, and put it on
  http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/colour1.html

It looks fine in netscape 4.x (the old one didn't)

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On Thursday, 18 Jun 98 16:57:45, flu...@quadrant.xs4all.nl.spambgone (Hayley Jane Wakenshaw) wrote:

>Aaaargh!! I need help! 
>
>I've been colourising my ascii, and in the new browser I'm using it looks
>fine. BUT when my fiancee tried the page on a real computer, in Netscape,
>it showed up as a page of muddled ascii in proportional font.
>
>I've had a look at the source code for some other colour pages, but you all
>know how utterly useless I am at HTML, so as far as I could see I'm not
>doing anything wrong. Pfft!  :)  Do I only have to use the pre tag, or is 
>there another tag that I have to include to keep the colour AND the fixed 
>font? 
>
>Hmm.. I have the feeling I'm sounding more than just a little bit blonde!
>:)
>
>I really don't have a clue, and nor does Robbie. :-} The test page 
>uploaded already at:
>
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr/colour1.html
>
>If anyone has the time or the inclination, could they possibly have a look
>and see what gapingly obvious and stupid faults I'm making this time?! :-)
> 
>Thanks in advance.
>
>*hugs*
>
>Hayley 
>--
>         _     _          _     _          _     _
>        (o\---/o)        (o\-~-/o)        (o\~~~/o)
>         ( 6 6 )          ( , , )          ( 9 9 )
> ____,~~.(_(T)_),~~.__,--.{_(Y)_},--.__,--.(_(T)_),--.____
>|    "--"       "--"  "--"       "--"  "~~"       "~~"    |
>|Hayley J. Wakenshaw (flump AT quadrant DOT xs4all DOT nl)|
>|   Flump's Ascii Collection: http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr   |   
>|   _,-.    ,-._       _,-.    ,-._        _,-.    ,-._   |   
>|__(ooO )__( Ooo)_____(ooO )__( Ooo)______(ooO )__( Ooo)__|  
>   ((_) )  ( (_))     ((_) )  ( (_))      ((_) )  ( (_))
>    "--"    "--"       "~~"    "~~"        "-~"    "~-"
>    i liked things better when i didn't understand them. 
>                    - Calvin & Hobbes
>


I'm just guessing but is your fiancee's browser set for a proportional font?


















































































		




                      
 		      	
		             	
		     	      	       
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>Message-id: <747...@hugbear.NL.net>
>I've been colourising my ascii, and in the new browser I'm using it looks
>fine. BUT when my fiancee tried the page on a real computer, in Netscape,
>it showed up as a page of muddled ascii in proportional font.
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr/colour1.html

Hayley, on the AOL browser, all looks good
until the very top of the balloon and just 
under the clouds... and then it is munged
until the bottom... what a sad mermaid!
I'm not much for technical things-- I'm not
sure where the problem might lie... but there's
got to be something wrong at that point..
(how profound, huh?)
-joan
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spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) writes:
>>Message-id: <747...@hugbear.NL.net>
>>I've been colourising my ascii, and in the new browser I'm using it looks
>>fine. BUT when my fiancee tried the page on a real computer, in Netscape,
>>it showed up as a page of muddled ascii in proportional font.
>>http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr/colour1.html
>
>Hayley, on the AOL browser, all looks good
>until the very top of the balloon and just 
>under the clouds... and then it is munged
>until the bottom... what a sad mermaid!
>I'm not much for technical things-- I'm not
>sure where the problem might lie... but there's
>got to be something wrong at that point..
>(how profound, huh?)

Well I've used the copy shimrod uploaded, and hopefully 
that works. If it does, I'm going to be a happy bunny, coz 
that means I can spend lots of time colouring in! :-)

Thanks for the help herman! :)

-Hayley

.----- On Thursday, 18 Jun 98 16:57:45, Hayley Jane Wakenshaw posted:
|Aaaargh!! I need help! 
|
|I've been colourising my ascii, and in the new browser I'm using it looks
|fine. BUT when my fiancee tried the page on a real computer, in Netscape,
|it showed up as a page of muddled ascii in proportional font.
|
|I've had a look at the source code for some other colour pages, but you all
|know how utterly useless I am at HTML, so as far as I could see I'm not
|doing anything wrong. Pfft!  :)  Do I only have to use the pre tag, or is 
|there another tag that I have to include to keep the colour AND the fixed 
|font? 
|
|Hmm.. I have the feeling I'm sounding more than just a little bit blonde!
|:)
|
|I really don't have a clue, and nor does Robbie. :-} The test page 
|uploaded already at:
|
|http://www.xs4all.nl/~klr/colour1.html
|
|If anyone has the time or the inclination, could they possibly have a look
|and see what gapingly obvious and stupid faults I'm making this time?! :-)
| 
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Hmm. Remember, ages ago, when my ascii gallery and original copy of the FAQ got
munged up... The problem there was erronous and extraneous HTML tags placed by
my (now nuked) web editor, WebExpress.

I think theres some extraneous </FONT> tags there.

Advice: Never use Microvision WebExpress... ever... ok?
You can still see little remnants of it all over Bungle & Mart`s Weird,
Wonderful World....... I`ll clean it all up one day.

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