On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +0000, Yaakov Stein wrote: > > ASCII is already unreadable on many popular devices > and in a few years will be no better than old versions of word. > > I am referring to the fact that more and more people are reading > documents on cell-phones and other small devices. > According to analysts, this will be the most popular platform for reading > material from the Internet within a few years. > > The ASCII art used in RFCs becomes hopelessly mangled and unreadable, > while the rest of the text is merely hard to read. > > On the other hand, were the figures to be in any format that > preserves their integrity, one would see a small depiction that > could be enlarged as necessary. If you can pan and scan a complex PDF file, you can pan and scan ASCII art. Furthermore, ASCII text has the benefit that you can much more easily reflow the text portions of the document. If I only had a small screen device, and I had my choice between an unreflowable PDF file, and a sufficiently smart ASCII reader that would allow me to switch back and forth between reflowed ASCII text, and a "pan and scan" mode for ASCII art, the ASCII document would be ***far*** more readable on a small screen than the aforementioned PDF document. - Ted > So I suggest removing ASCII from the list, > as ASCII art will not be readable on mainstream devices in the near future. > > Y(J)S > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf