Re: Resizing images relative to window size

In "Re: Resizing images relative to window size", Melt van Schoor
<Hermanus@iafrica.com> wrote:
> At 05:38 PM 96/07/04 +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> >
> >No, I meant that you'd have an external application work on it to a
> >temporary file or area of memory, and then the browser would pick the
> >result up and display it in its own window.
> >
> >James
> >
> 
> Sorry for me-tooing, but this is a great idea. I can imagine that different
> people would attempt to create graphics utilities especially for this
> purpose, and in the end, it would lead to a vast improvement in speed &
> quality.
> 
> This approach could also enable the web to contain more than 3 graphics
> formats for www pages, if the utility would simply convert it to .GIF (or
> .PNG) before passing the results to the browser.  Mabey we would even be
> able to use vector-based graphics on www-pages, and there are many
> advantages to this.
> 
> Unfortunately it's a browser issue, and not html. (sincere apologies)

    I know that this is a browser issue, but I just have to reply, because
this sort of thing has already been done, and a paper presented on it to a W3C
conference.
    The AmigaOS has an object-oriented way of dealing with different data. 
With regards to this application, it has a class for manipulating picture
data, and many third-party sub-classes which serve simply as loaders for
specific formats.  Every graphical WWW browser on the Amiga has relied on the
"DataTypes" system to load graphics, because all they have to do is hand off a
pointer to the graphic, and get back a bitmap.
    I've done a page at http://www.execpc.com/~innuendo/amiga/os/datatypes/picture.html
which has a wide variety of image formats, all of which Amiga browsers can
display.

-- 
Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?

Received on Friday, 5 July 1996 18:37:09 UTC