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From: jorn@mcs.com (Jorn Barger)
Subject: Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art
Date: 1998/02/08
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Lennert Stock <lstock@lstock.demon.nl> wrote:
> In the long term theoretical kind of way the W3C excels in, what would
> perhaps be interesting is the CSS solution. Define a class for visual
> clients, e.g. 'asciiartclass', then <SPAN> the ASCII art with it.

It should be set up so "ALT" text for images can be an ascii version!

I have little respect for W3C-- eg their mistaken preference for "EM"
instead of "I"...

-- 
"Tell me, Eutrapelus, which is the weaker person: 
he that yields to another, or he that is yielded to?"  --Erasmus