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- From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave `geek' Gymer)
- Subject: Re: Getting AmiGuide to work?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.140626.11430@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- References: <11440@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.165552.3741@cs.nott.ac.uk> <75n3jx@rpi.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:06:26 GMT
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- In article <75n3jx@rpi.edu> cleggp@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Paul Jason Clegg) writes:
- >Yes, I think we're holding on any sort of graphics for a (long) while.
- [...]
- > Perhaps we should consider keeping graphics separate from the
- >text info? That way, if a hitchhiker is short on disk space (as most should
- >be, particularly after the guide gets big), they can just not download the
- >pictures, and get the text data separately. Plus, it would be a lot easier
- >to deal with, I think. Any comments?
-
- Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Then we could just add a special
- header field with the name of the image, and guide readers with
- graphic capability could pull up an image when requested (each article
- could have several images, and each image could be referenced by
- several articles). Ditto for guides served over a network.
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