- From: Steve Cheng <steve@elmert.ipoline.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 21:29:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > Streaming works for audio and video because the sequential data are all the > same size (amplitudes or RGB bits). Is that so? I thought most formats use some type of compression. In these formats, data sizes, etc. can be sent in advance because the media is fixed, but HTML is media-independent. > With HTML you have elements of varying > sizes (fonts, bullets, images, etc.), and it can't be calculated in advance > unless everything is embedded (such as with PDF). Also right-to-left direction text. Now, how would "streaming" be done with a speech browser? I can imagine multiple voices yelling at you simultaneously. :) -- Steve Cheng elmert@ipoline.com <http://home.ipoline.com/~elmert/>
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