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I'm making a page that is to be made completely in preformatted text. Here's a preview, comments please!

Lookie lookie!

looks nice but is there something that's clickable apart from the W3C logo? :D

oh and it breaks in an extremely cute way on Pocket Opera :D

Nothing else is clickable. This merely a design preview. I'm trying to keep the code as clean as possible until i write a PHP engine for it.
How is the ASCII art working? Is my nick readable?

Great to see other Opera users btw! But what do you mean by Pocket Opera? Opera Mini or Opera Mobile?

A good start. On Firefox the line-height doesn't seem correct in the sense that the diagonals aren't in line. Also specifying a font like "Courier New" or something else as common can help crossbrowser/comp compatibility.

Works fine and looks cool here on Opera 8.52/MacOS X.

The line-height is set the way I want it atm, and I know the slashes aren't in line.
As far as I've understood, Courier New generally donesn't have some characters I'm using and definitely not some characters that I will use. So I thought the most fair thing to do was to set the character-encoding to windows-1252 and pray that the browser will handle it smoothly.

Pocket Opera is Opera for PocketPC. It's still beta though.

do a complete redesign. then it may look nice.

Firefox gave me a warning :D

line 6 column 1 - Warning: removing whitespace preceding XML Declaration

looked like digging the BBS on an Amiga with DC Telnet.
Nice work

gah. my eyes!

Other then being a nice gimmick for a site, congratulations on making <span> the new <table> :|


mr. font-family:monospace; would like to chat you up.

Monospace would be the fallback, yes. But if he wanted as much control over the look of the characters as possible, he might want to use a font bundled with Windows as the default one.

If he wants that much control over the look of the characters, he should use a static image. Then it won't change, even when someone uses a real font, like Topaz, B-struct, or p0T-nOodle.

ascii-as-image is the most portable ascii format indeed... we used it years ago to send ascii stickers to a printing press :)

gah. my ears!

I don't know if he does. My idea of "as much as possible" would be just that, not having to rely on images. For printing it would be perfectly alright since the image FILE is not what's disctributed, plus everybody knows computers and print don't mix too good. ;)

Actually, I DO now know he doesn't. :)

If I wanted full, full control over the look, I would use pictures for everything, even letters.
But the problem is that that would probably render pretty slowly. Besides it's eaiser editing characters than IMG tags. (Or just one big picture, but that would be even harder to edit on the fly.)
If it just works ok crossbrowser it's ok. I've got reports that it looks alright an both Windows, linux and FF on OS X, so I'm satisified with that. (Still need verification that it works in Safari though)

http://www.filelodge.com/files/room14/331458/music/Swine_vs_pearls.mp3

Just tested it - also works fine with Safari!

Well, the problem I can see is that strange characters such as "macron" or over-score as I like to call it may be displayed wrong. Here's what I mean:

Right:

Wrong:

Chuck Norris:


So please check again in Safari if it renders wrong or right. (Or even...)

Er yeah... Linux users agree! Seriously, that's thinking in the right direction, except so totally wrong.

You're ugly.

why does your source has rem's that point to http://www.hemsida.net/ ? forgot to remove that copy/ pasted stuff? -)

and heres more feedback: pay somebody to design u something proper.it looks h.o.r.r.i.b.l.e.

Some crap my hosting service puts there.

For those of you who think it's ugly: I don't care about you. If you asked me if you could polish my shoes, I would kick you in the face. I enjoy YOUR aids. What? This is not 4chan?