Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 14:52:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Tim Bird <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
cc: OpenDOS <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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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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