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From: "Brock Kevin Nambo" <newsmaster@earthling.net>
Subject: Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art
Date: 1998/02/11
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Shimrod wrote in message <34E07036.4ACD@wing.rug.nl>...
>No, IE4 should be avoided like the plague.

Unfortunately, as an upgrade to Windows 95, it's very hard to avoid...

>Nope, if you consider ascii-art an image format like gif or jpeg,
>that should offcourse be:
>
><img src="selfportrait.asc" alt="my self-portrait">
>
>With selfportrait.asc containing the ascii. It would be ridiculous to
>add a new tag for every new image format. This would require browsers to
>recognise the .asc extension and display it as preformatted text. This
>will offcourse not work with older browsers. how about:
>
><img src="something.gif" ascii="something.asc" alt="something">


Unfortunately, HTML4.0 encourages use of <OBJECT> even for images, so it
would be something like <OBJECT src="bingo.asc"> (but src= may not be the
right attri....)

For the other example, it would be like,

<object src(orwhatever)="thingy.gif">
  <object src="thingy.asc" alt="(the thingy)">
    Wow, your browser doesn't do images OR asciiart? yeeeks!
  </object>
</object>

Or even:
<object src="image.gif" alt="image">
  [ insert ascii of image here ]
</object>

At least, from reading W3C's html spec, that's how it seems to be.  I
haven't tried any of this yet.

>> Here's my example "in action":
>>
>> http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/asciiarttag.html
>>
>
>Does that work on all browsers?


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