Re: Inlined image format

Liam Relihan <relihanl@ul.ie>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 21:42:23 +0000 (WET)
From: Liam Relihan <relihanl@ul.ie>
Subject: Re: Inlined image format
To: ellson@hotsand.att.com
Cc: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
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On Tue, 25 Jan 1994 ellson@hotsand.att.com wrote:
> > From: Liam Relihan <relihanl@ul.ie>
> > 
> > In addition, external filters are not likely to be aware of things like
> > overlaid anchors, etc.
> 
> But the inline icon can handle the overlaid anchors, just as in
> delayed image loading.  

The icon can handle the anchors if the browser can display the image the
icon represents --- ie. the image appears inline when the icon is activated.

If the browser must spawn a viewer because it can't handle the format, then
map stuff won't work (unless we are dealing with a very sophisticated
viewer that could return coordinates to the browser which could interpred
them).


Liam

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