Re: CSS ASCII . MIDI . Help Help Help . . .

i should also mention that i'm quite new to web interface design, and as
such
i've quickly come to learn that sadly
nothing is WSYWIG.

Excellent observation ;o)

My First Question, is in regards to Formating ASCII ART and Design for
display
throughout the WEB.
now, i have read that any ASCII needs to be encoded, or prefaced by <pre
pre/> in order to keep
it's formatting.

Right. For ascii art to work, you need a monospaced font. By default, PRE
should default to a monospaced font on the end-user's system. That CAN be
overridden, though.

My second question regards Embedding MIDI files to play on LOAD.
What type of music files can be played when a page is opened?

It depends on all sorts of variables.

which ones will need to open a quicktime bar?

QT will need it. Others may open in quicktime if the person has quicktime
and they've told quicktime to handle that particular file format.

and in which way can i control their loop and playback?

The only reliable way to do this is to do it in flash.

But also remember that background music on a web site is, for the most part,
just really annoying.

-Darrel

i still don't understand the <PRE> tag that needs to be embedded into the
code,
i really dont understand HTML at all. . .

<pre>
put your
fancy ASCII art
here in any fixed layout
you want
</pre>

how can i put it to work, so that i know the ASCII will remain FORMATTED
with
a unicode font?

Like I said, most all browsers will, by default, display anything wrapped in
PRE tags in a monospaced font. However, if someone wants to, they can
override that setting. Not much you can do about that.

-Darrel

nothing is WSYWIG

NoONE is WSYWIG either ...