Vatican Library interface

marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)

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Date: Sun, 30 May 93 06:08:08 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-id: <9305301108.AA20745@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Cc: kell@seq1.loc.gov, gwe3409@atc.boeing.com, vincenti@zodiac.rutgers.edu,
        john.ockerbloom@gs1.sp.cs.cmu.edu, roger.hayes@east.sun.com,
        hoesel@chem.rug.nl, harmo@valt.helsinki.fi
Subject: Vatican Library interface
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I've done some tweaking to the Vatican Library interface we're serving
from www.ncsa.uiuc.edu (originally by Frans van Hoesel with
contributions by John Ockerbloom); the changes include...

  o All images referenced by the interface are now served via http 
    from www.ncsa.uiuc.edu, not via ftp from seq1.loc.gov.
  o All images are now in GIF format (full 256-color, same size).
  o Some tweaks to the exhibit text for readability, typos, etc.

The goal of the changes was to increase performance at the client end.
I am also considering reducing the size of all the images to 1280x1024
or less, since xv is not fast at scaling images down to size.

Also, I see LOC is in the process of putting up a 1492 exhibit on
seq1.loc.gov, and that the old Soviet archive is still sitting there
waiting for a hypermedia interface (hint hint hint :-).

Finally, if you didn't catch it the first time around, the URL for the
interface we're serving is...

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/Vatican.exhibit.html

Enjoy,
Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu