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From: hr12864@cs.cs.appstate.edu (Harry Samuel Renkert V)
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/09/19
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Christine Mackley (clm1948@sprynet.com) wrote:
: On 8 Jul 1996 07:07:27 GMT,
: matt.granberry@windmill.com@windmillbbs.com    (Matt Granberry) wrote:
: >I have this same complaint of Netscape.  On my web pages I include 
: >ascii-art as alternatives for many of the images.  This looks great using 
: >a text mode browser such as LYNX but looks terrible using Netscape.
: >
: >The best example of this 
: >on my pages is at:  http://nunic.nu.edu/~dissel/mini.html
: >
: >I don't think it is possible to set this up properly for viewing in 
: >Netscape.  Even version 2.0 does not view the alternatives properly.
: >
: >Have a great day,
: >Dave.

: SUGGESTION:  make the ascii art into a gif so folks can see what it
: looks like....AND include a download link to the "doggie.txt"...like
: people do on their pages for text based browsers.

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I believe that the <BR> tag will force a line break.
- Sam