27 Nov
2018
27 Nov
'18
5:29 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 01:21:52AM +1100, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
[...]
Oh yes, tell me about the html 'there is no such
thing as hard formatting and
you can't have any even when you want it' concept. Thank you Tim Berners Lee.
Sure you can! Pick one of:
a) If you're not using HTML features, don't bother wrapping the text in a HTML
document. Just serve up a bog standard text/plain document with all of your
favourite ASCII art and hard formatting as you please.
b) Go old-school and use HTML <pre>.
c) Go lah-di-dah new-school and use the CSS white-space: property to fine-tune
the exact formatting behaviour of <pre> you desire.