Re: NUTS!

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jmholmes@swbell.net (John) wrote:

>Actually the best approach might be to get some of these folks designing web 
>pages to actually take a look at the crap they are putting out there...
>
>I still perfer the lynx approach to displaying the page as text and if one 
>wants to actually view the "cutesy" stuff a webmaster feels is necessary to 
>put on a web page to have the option of downloading it.  I, for one, could do 
>without all of this animated gif crap, or these progressive jpg files 
>displayed on a page and REALLY could do without the JAVA or any of it's 
>related forms...  When I go to view a web page, I am simply looking (for the 
>most part) for information.  Even though the saying goes "A picture is worth a

>thousand words" there are a VERY LARGE number of webmasters that need to take 
>a second look at the pictures that they are using to convey these words...

Well, a graphical IIGS browser would be nice, but I propose a
graphical browser that would display graphics from IIGS
specific web sites BUT act as a lynx type browser in other
web pages.

The main barrier to a graphical IIGS web browser is that GIF
and JPEG are not native IIGS formats, so they require a great
deal of conversion to display.  GIF might be doable, since
Brutal Deluxe's Convert 3200 program uses routines that can
convert and resize a 640x200 GIF in a couple of seconds on
the IIGS, but foreign formats are still not ideal.

I propose that the new browser checks the image tags and
if the image specified is a IIGS format image such as SHR,
it'll download the image and display it.  SHR images are
small (32k max) and do not need conversion.  They can
be display in an instant.  The IIGS is more than up to the
task.  Thus, on IIGS specific web pages, you get graphics.
But on other pages with GIF and JPEG files, you would
get the option of downloading it for later viewing because
they take time to be converted.  I think this is the best
solution.

Of course if Netscape or IE browsers encounter an SHR
image, they would display a broken image icon.  It would
be possible to write plug-ins for Netscape and IE browsers
to display SHR images, though.