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>>Bluest+(OP)
It's kind of funny that every example the article shows is a screenshot or video. Not a single one was actual ASCII text in the HTML...

>>zootbo+ot8
It's not trivial to display ASCII art as text in html. There's so many ways to mess it up that unless the site is dedicated to ASCII art, a simple image is really preferable.

>>califo+gw8
<pre> works pretty reliably

>>Groxx+Yx8
For whitespace and for the simplest ASCII sure, but for anything a bit more complex you might have problems with

1. HTML reserved characters like < > and \.

2. overflowing content

3. displaying ASCII made with special encodings and characters sets, like code page 437

4. displaying nonprintable (control) characters

5. displaying colors

6. text preprocessors messing up the formatting

>>califo+QB8
Most of those are solved with wrapping it in both <code> and <pre>, and #5 I don't think is even part of "ASCII art" anymore as it wouldn't be just ASCII anymore, but rich-text.

>>diggan+y49
What do you mean? Add far as I know <code><pre> doesn't help with any of those?

Color is very much a part of ASCII art, if we consider ASCII to mean a broader range of different technologies. Just check the stuff in the article, or the stuff on https://16colo.rs/ site.