Re: Inlined image format

dcmartin@library.ucsf.edu (David C. Martin)
Message-id: <199401250012.AA24173@library.ucsf.edu >
From: dcmartin@library.ucsf.edu (David C. Martin)
Organization: UCSF Center for Knowledge Management
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To: jonm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jon E. Mittelhauser)
Cc: mcrae@ora.com (Christopher McRae), Pini Albilia <pini@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>,
        www-talk@www0.cern.ch, cheong@library.ucsf.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:12:02 -0600
	<9401242012.AA11417@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu> 
Subject: Re: Inlined image format 
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 16:12:43 PST
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Regardless of format, sometimes you have information in format A and due
to limits on computation and/or storage you can only deliver it in that
format.  Additional formats are not bad and it is only the design
limitations of Mosaic that make supporting more formats problematic.

dcm
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Jon E. Mittelhauser writes:

At 11:56 AM 1/24/94 -0800, Christopher McRae wrote:
>Pini Albilia writes:
>> Is there a way to include Inlined image not in gif format?
>
>  There used to be a patch for Xmosaic which allowed for inlining TIFF
>images.  The work was done by Cheong Ang at UCSF.  I think you should be
>able to get it via ftp to ftp.library.ucsf.edu.  If you're interested in
>using some other image format, you might look at Cheong's code as an
>example of how to modify Xmosaic.

The advantage to using Gifs, however, is that the document will be viewable
in all browsers that support inlined images.  If you add a new format, the
document will only be viewble by a very limited set of people...

At least in terms of Mosaic, we have currently only agreed to support gifs 
and xbms on all three platforms...

-Jon

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