Re: X Mosaic, FTP and PASV

roeber@vxcrna.cern.ch (Frederick G.M. Roeber)
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 18:06:17 +0100
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From: roeber@vxcrna.cern.ch (Frederick G.M. Roeber)
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Subject: Re: X Mosaic, FTP and PASV
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>It would be nice to show the file size under the icon and to use
>a multicolumn format when practical. This could all be done with

If we had a place for storing information related to a document,
(do we?  There's talk about a "Hyperdoc" type in HTAnchor.c, but
it's never flushed out.), then the size (as a number) should be
put there.  Then all those browsers that currently give transfer
status in bytes could give it as a percentage.

A browser could implement a selection for http-served documents
which invokes a HEAD to find out this kind of information.  If
this info included the time changed, it could be compared against
the global history.

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<a href="http://info.cern.ch/roeber/fgmr.html">Frederick</a>