Re: Proposal for future improvements

David J Woolley wrote:
> 
> >      Maybe it would be nice if Amaya will support blinking in CSS and also
> >      by the 'BLINK' tag (which has become a pseudo standard).
> 
> Blinking is very expensive without special hardware support.  It's OK
> for Windows 95 products aimed at single users who are assumed to have
> dedicated high spec machines; its not a good idea for a multi-user
> system.
As the original message says: if it is not available, we can work a route
around. Those routes (motion gifs, java...) always use much more resources.

Please provide such a tag so brouwsers can implement the shortest routes to
the action requested or provide substitutes for it.

> 
> In the general case, the most efficient implementation may be to
> maintain two copies of the window bitmap and copy them, to swap them,
> twice for each blink.  I think this is probably why it is considered
> optional.
The requires much more overhead than the required blinking! With this route
YOU implement the blinking. With the tag, the brouwser implements the
blinking (and it has the option to disable it)

> 
> I think any browser that supports BLINK needs to have a global option
> to disable it.
Here you are: With a BLINK tag, you can disable it. With your provided
options, it is not possible to disable it.

The alternatives to BLINK I can think of are:
ALTERNATE: display 2 separate things (text, pictures, etc) alternating. This
gives the power to blink between BOLD and normal or ITALICS and normal. This
can be used for blinking: alternate between text and nothing.
ROULATE: display multiple separate things (text, pictures, etc) roulating:
this gives the power to blink between BOLD, normal, ITALICS, UNDERLINE etc.



CB

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Received on Wednesday, 2 December 1998 03:55:07 UTC