Clarence, Why not text?
Are you going to tell me that reading plain text files, with small print and whatever default you set up for color combo [like green on black] is pleasant? I find it extremely difficult to plow through text files on the web ... And he'd still have to use HTML if you wanted links, because not all browsers can "see" http:// as the start of a field in the middle of a text file. I'm not certain, even, that Arachne can do that. OK, then -- an html page that is "text only" would work -- as long as the colors of the page don't argue with the defaults of whatever brower ... which can happen, resulting in a no-see'em page. However, to make it nicely readable shouldn't the author at least use tables? And then we're back to a generator that might do things differently than browsers will handle. I currently have problems with pages being two pages wide on some websites, or pages "running off the edge" -- with all 3 browsers that will run in DOS or Win3.1. Once again that problem is generally cured when graphics are used the way the guy has the slideshow. l.d. ==== On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 18:12:46 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 17:52:02 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: >> Why slides? >> I can think of a few good reasons: >> 1. Style sheets become immaterial. >> 2. Security from spiders ... >> 3. The individual is using a generator I've never heard of before. > Those ARE good reasons, in addition to: > "the viewer sees it the way I meant him/her to" >> On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 15:42:10 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: >>> Here we get slides. A good example of how to blow 200 bytes of text >>> up into a 50k image. Why slides ? > Why not TEXT ? > Considering the content, of course. > - Clarence Verge. > -- Using Arachne 1.66 on DSL. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
