Date   : Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:33:41 +0100
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: ITV Teletext to shut down in January

In article <2f806cd70907171648q18d0b532q916df02a33e4ce09@...>,
   Rob <robert@...> wrote:
> On 18/07/2009, me@... <me@...> wrote:
> > On 17 Jul 2009, at 23:01, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> >
> >> I put a bit of toy code together to try and convert a teletext page
> >> into HTML. Needs to be in a table to get the character cells to
> >> line up. Unfortunatelt, font doesn't span across a table, so it
> >> generates code like:
> >
> > [Snip horrific HTML]
> >
> > Oh jeez man, *please* use CSS.
>
> Still can't get the right /look/ without the font...
> I had thought of
> <img src="redR.gif"><img src="redE.gif"><img src="redD.gif"><img
> src="space.gif">....

As the underlying teletext bitmap is effectively only 320x256 why not just
send the page as a bitmap (PNG compresses this to ~3k) and scale by two to
get to 640x512 in the browser?

Then, the HTML only needs to be concerned with an imagemap to do the page
links and perhaps something to do the live ticker along the top,
Sprow.