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Old 01-08-2004, 10:28 AM   #1
erdos
 
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Some things to point out:
1. practically no clients in existance these days fail to uphold ANSI standards

2. many people these days do not know what "ANSI" even is.  for many people, "Do you want ANSI color? [Y/N]" is their first impression of the MUD world.  And we only get one first impression.

3. References to ANSI may be somewhat obsolete:  it would suffice to simply ask "Do you want color?"  If anyone has a client too ancient for ANSI, they are likely to know what you're talking about, which this comes off much friendlier to people who've never heard of it.  (Note that this applies to any MUD which prompts for ANSI anywhere, not just login)

4. Worst case scenario, sending ANSI signals to a client which doesn't support them, will make garbled gibberish appear.  Contrary to popular belief, it WON'T cause anyone's computer to explode

5. Many MUDs prompt for ANSI both on intial login, AND in character creation.  The obvious redundancy just reeks unprofessional

6. As I'm sure 30 people will immediately reply, yes, I already know you can make a trigger to auto-send the "Y" at the login prompt, as does anyone else who is reading these forums.  So please don't waste HD space reminding us for the trillionth time that triggers exist.

7. Many of the new clients have ways of identifying themselves, or at least identifying that they support certain features (mccp, pueblo, etc.) If a client falls into this category, obviously it can support ANSI; is it still necessary to prompt for ANSI from it anyway?
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