Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 21:44:46 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
cc: OpenDOS <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:
> On 27 Mar 97 at 11:15, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, yeep wrote:
> > online documentation for OpenDOS (or anything else for that
> > matter) be distributed as HTML.  A normal browser could read it
> 

> 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

If I may be so bold to ask, why would you need graphics in a help file?
IF such is needed, and the desire to include them without loading up disk
is also desired, then what about leaving them uncompressed in like a TAR?
Then the document could include the graphic via the meta-name of:
<img src="image.tar/picture.this">  Which when handed to the loader would
invoke a detarring engine to extract the image to the buffer being used by
the browser for loading the file.  Matter of fact, to make it fully
compliant, could you not reference the image via a cgi link and have the
cgi call the detarring engine?  I know of several sites on the web that
will deliver a random image each time you load the page, and while I've
never examined the mechanism, I'm pretty certain it's something like this.

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