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From: ad514@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Tim Park)
Subject: Re: Half Space Technique for html art
Date: 1998/04/21
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"Brock Kevin Nambo" (newsmaster@earthling.net) writes:
> Tim Park wrote in message <6hh9vr$8nb@freenet-news.carleton.ca>...
>>Just create a 1-pixel-sized transparent GIF, and insert it between
>>characters or lines at whatever size you want.
>>Though, I'm not going to go into a dissertation on the pros and cons of
>>this, and what browsers it will and won't work with.  (Sorry, no essay)
> Lynx, etc, -- text only browsers will at best ignore yer spaces and at worst

<sigh>  I should have at least mentioned Lynx, because it's an "obvious"
choice not to work.  Since it's a "character cell browser", I don't see
how it even works with the "Half Space Technique", unless it's using some
kind of control codes on certain terminals.
(No, I haven't bothered to test it yet)

> fill your image with [IMAGE] tags (you did remember to say alt="" right?)

Of course I did. :)

> Of course, GIF is a proprietary format, so only certain browsermakers can
> put it in--whether by personal inability or by personal choice (FSF, for
> example, will have no truck with GIF)--so any browsers made by those people
> won't make it.

So pick your favourite image format.
Last I heard, I thought that GIF had to be licensed only if you wanted to
have "encoding"/save routines in your code, and that loaders were okay.
(This argument doesn't affect personal choice, but I still wanted to
mention it)

Does anyone think that the discussion of this "high-technology ASCII" is
taking some of the fun out of it?
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