Re: 11GS Mosaic

[techno@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (Michael Hildebrandt)]

Mike McCormick (mtm4@rsvl.unisys.com) wrote:
: >I'm no expert, but my gut feeling is, "No."
: >Actually, try "Not even close. Not in a million years." ;)

: Oh gosh, how hard could it be?  HTTP is a very simple protocol (much simpler 
: than FTP, for instance).  HTML is a simple markup language.  And there is 
: already a GIF viewer for the GS....

If HTML files contailed TEXT ONLY, it would be really easy for someone to 
write.  where it would get difficult is with the multimedia portion.  
Well, it's probably easy to dump a sound to the Ensoniq, but there would 
most likely be a problem with the images.  Since they are most likely 
designed for viewing on higher resolution screens, the program would have 
to spend time rescaling the image to fit in 320X200 resolution, and 16 
colors, which would take some time to do and would slow down the 
connection, unless the GS was accellerated.

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