X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,806074286da5ecd9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: Q:ASCII art on web pages...THX Date: 1999/06/29 Message-ID: <37794193.2C1E@earthling.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 495374783 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3775A14B.7E86@earthling.net> <19990627121927.29122.00004499@ng-cj1.aol.com> Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Spunk1111 wrote: > > >Message-id: <3775A14B.7E86@earthling.net> > > >You don't need any   anywhere! Joan's page is a mess of "WYSIWYG > >editor" garbage. I think she knows that but doesn't care. That's a pity > >because a lot of people see her as the Queen of ascii art and a Great > >Master to look at and learn from. > > Yes, I know about all the   garbage. > It's not that I don't care... it's more due to > the fact that I'm uneasy not using a wysiwyg > editor. I'm uneasy about _using_ a wysiwyg editor, because I know what kind of garbapge those things usually produce. :( > I'm not computer expert -- I have > little background in computers and programming. HTML is not programming. HTML is nowhere *near* programming. HTML is just saying what something is, e.g. "this is a paragraph" is said in HTML by placing the text inside:

. > I remember a little BASIC from middle > school on a Wang... I also played around > with our Commodore 64/128 -- but that was > mostly for games. I am technically-challenged. Repeat after me: "HTML is not programming!". > I can draw the ASCII pics but don't ask me > to do any fancy programming or coding. > My inexperience and lack of knowledge > shows in my source code... No one should > look to that to learn from. I think the big problem here is that people are used to looking at you as the expert, so when they need advice on how to do things right - they look at how the expert does it... :-/ Anyway, here's a little thing I just made for you: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/ASCII-to-HTML/ It takes a "pure ascii" picture, and turns it into HTML, which you can then copy-paste to Notepad. -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -