Another click-on-an-image demo is available

Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>

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Subject: Another click-on-an-image demo is available
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Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Date: Fri, 07 May 1993 13:44:19 -0500
From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>

This one is a bit more practical than the astronaut.  It puts up a little
book icon at the bottom of the page and you can use it to select UP,
FORWARD, or BACK in the text.  To be fully functional (so it knows were
you clicked on the icon) you need the xmosaic-1.0-image-hack patches
available from the demo page.

I'm thinking about how to do auto-indexing because there is no point in
doing this by hand (esp with my weird syntax for this).  It'll probably
be database driven with an HTML+ interperter in the server that takes
something like
>>>INDEX_ME<<<
in the document and sticks the index info there.  Any thoughts?  My
next project towards this goal is file type mapping in &send_file;
so it'll take foo.xxx and run it through a specified filter that
converts it to html (for dumping databases, doing interpreted menus,
and on the fly indexing).

The demo is at:

http://www.bsdi.com/demo/bookmark/index.html

The code is http://www.bsdi.com/server/bookmark.pl
The image data is http://www.bsdi.com/images/bookmark/

I haven't documented this in the server docs yet.  I will before 1.1.

Enjoy!

--sanders@bsdi.com