- From: Joel N. Weber II <nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 14:16:10 -1000 (HST)
- To: "Michael H. Lambert" <lambert@psc.edu>
- cc: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>, HTML <www-html@w3.org>, lambert@psc.edu, andrews@psc.edu
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Michael H. Lambert wrote:
> > So why isn't it supported by graphical browsers?
>
> I think it would be useful, but I wonder if people raised on 24-bit color
> depth raster graphics see any need for vector graphics. At any rate,
> there is a MIME type for binary CGM (image/cgm). The Pittsburgh
> Supercomputing Center (plug!) some time ago developed an application,
> gplot, to display CGM files under X, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.
> It is freely usable and modifiable, but redistribution would require
> negotiation. If some enterprising soul would like to try to incorporate
> it into a browser to display CGM images in line, it can be picked up from
> ftp://ftp.psc.edu/pub/gplot.
[Most people on this list probably don't know that I'm working on writing
the GNU web browser, named E-scape. It isn't finished yet, however. It
probably will only run on X11.]
I did look at CGM at one point. However, it looks to me like getting a
hard copy of the specs would be ridiculously expensive, and gplot doesn't
exactly strike me as a well-written program. For example, if I obscure
its window on X, then expose it, the image doesn't seem to be redrawn.
E-scape will eventually support PostScript. Is there anything that can
be done with CGM but not Postscript?
nemo
http://www.cyclic.com/~nemo
<nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us> <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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