mgetty --> Web-Page

• Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

If you wish to use Netscape or IE, you might take a look at a couple of
plugins... I've used a couple with good results:
* Viewdirector Prizm
* Tiffsurf

These are detailed at http://home.netscape.com/plugins/image_viewers.html

-Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Simone Demmel [mailto:neko@greenie.muc.de]
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 12:19 AM
To: Randy Harmon
Cc: Gert Doering; Holger Petersen; mgetty@muc.de
Subject: Re: mgetty --> Web-Page


Hi,

<summary>
* different size for transfered pictures is necessary (Scaling on the
  clients side is not good
* the applet is for completion of the frontends
* JPG is not good, we use GIF
</summary>

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 11:13:54PM +0200, Randy Harmon wrote:
> and have been delivering incoming G3 files
> as email attachments with this approach.

IT's not a question of delivering - thats *very* easy. I want to have a
viewer, that works on most machines without any changes.

So you can manualy change your Application-List from your Browser to
choose whatever program you want to show your g3-Files (Plugins...), or
use a java-Applet. I think the appet is easier for many people, because they
don't have to look around if there is a g3-viever.

The final version for mgetty+sendfax *should* be a package with everything
necessary in it. The main functionalities are there, the frontends in some
cases need some work, like the network-possibilities.

> > Using GIF won't give me scaling in the client, and I have to store all
> > files twice on the server -- which is why I want something better.
> You should be able to send HTML with an IMG tag that specifies the viewing
> size (and resizability option?) regardless of the resolution of the actual
> source, which will give you scaling on the client.  And the client's cache
> will address re-fetch issues.

The idea behind this is different:
a thumnail picture has perhaps 5K
a normal half-sized g3 has about 20-50k
a full size picture has 100-800k

If you work with scaling, you have to send 100-800k to the client, because
you also want to be able to read this picture, if the scale is 100%. That
takes a lot of time and money, if you are far away fom home and only wants
to view the last 3 faxws from this night - you will think about it twice.

(JPG is no good format, because faxes mostly have exact lines. JPG always
smoothes these lines.)

If you only creates small pics, to change the size in your browser doesn't
give you more information for thew picture. (make the test: use an small
image, like those in /image with about 8 pixel-size and try to view them
with width="450" height="600")

I hope, you understand the point.

neko
-- 
neko@greenie.muc.de 	  Simone Demmel		Muenchen (Germany)
Fax.: 089/356 550 25 		      http://greenie.muc.de/~neko/
        Wo ist am Internet der Henkel zum wegschmeissen?