In message <01HF7JV1TL2QDCPSC4@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu>, Dave Jones
writes:
> >each image by it's image number (e.g. <IMG SRC="icons.gif#3> would mean
> >the third image in icons.gif).
> Eeek - where would this info be stored?
> GIF does not support named sections.
True, but 3 is not a name but a number.
GIF 87 and GIF89 both support multiple images per file. Code to extract
the n'th image of a GIF is availavle in, for example, the xanim package
I believe.
However, it is true that the multi-image functionality is not widely
used, and some common tools (ie XV) do not support it.
And I agree that this is a particular and partial solution to the more
general problem of reducing the page completion time by, for example,
multipart sends and requests.
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Chris Lilley
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