Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/31/02:01:14
On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Tim Bird wrote:
> > One problem is that HTML graphics must currently be in raster format (.GIF,
> .JPG,
> > .PNG, etc). A vector graphics format would be a MAJOR boon. If an OpenDOS
> system
> > web browser could support a nice vector format (CGM? WMF? Homegrown), the
> > documentation could use that, and a standard utility could render a vector
> > graphic into a .PNG to make a "portable" but also "larger" HTML file.
>
> Hey! These are really good ideas. Is anyone writing this down?
> (besides the maillist archive software?)
>
> Here's what I glean:
> - standardized archive format for multiple HTML pages to solve
> the "lots of small files" problem (.zip would work)
> - there should be some conventions about the files in the archive
> - 8.3 names for non-LFN systems
> - should contain INDEX.HTML as cover page for document set
> - document hyperlinks should be self-contained and use
> relative URLs to avoid hard-coding paths (except for URLS
> which actually refer to remote pages)
> - would be nice to have some meta-formats that could be exploded
> to formats acceptable to web browsers
> - convert from a vector format to raster (.PNG) format
I'm writing it down! Added to HELP section of wishlist.
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