Subject: Re: MOO clients for Windows? (fwd)

From: Clay Luther <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 15:08:08 -0800

> The MOO would maintain (small) bitmaps of objects in properties.
> The bitmaps would be encoded in ASCII. When a person using a
> special client which understands how to decode the bitmaps
> and handle the display coordinates connects, a property is
> set on their player object ($player.graphic_client). Then,
> whenever a description is sent to them, it includes the text
> as well as the bitmap. The client displays the bitmaps in one
> window on the screen, the text is displayed in another window.

I think this could be done in unix by adding MIME support to your favorite
client and using the MIME libraries.  The MIME sources claim that adding
such support to programs is reasonably easy.

Perhaps someone with more knowledge of MIME could expound upon this idea.

I personally would be happy to have MIME bitmaps available for display in
the moo, despite the (obvious) space considerations.

In fact, using MIME would allow a moo to have full-multimedia support.

If anyone would like to pursue this on a moo, I think I can provide a
programming sandbox for you.  Only serious applicants need apply.

-- 
Clay Luther                              [email-masked]
Software Engineer                        Vortech Data, Inc.
(214) 994-1377                           Fax (214) 994-1310

I dunno.

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From: Larry Masinter <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 18:43:32 -0800

I think MIME doesn't give enough fine-grained control over placement.
Most of the MIME types aren't really specified yet; image/gif and
application/postscript aren't really appropriate for in-MOO use.