Subject: Graphics in MOO

From: Michael Richardson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 14:22:22 -0700

[Ugg... I'm so far behind moo-cows, its really embarrassing]

  Anyone considering adding graphics to a MUD should take a long hard
look at World Wide Web, particularly the XMosaic client from NCSA.
There are issues of interaction that are missing, but there are kludgy
solutions to that now (involving search fields), but there are other
solutions coming, and new ideas could certainly be tried.
  I suspect that some custom server hacks would be the most efficient
way to do things, although with a disk based db other possibilities
suggest themselves. (Pavel... have you considered using mmap() rather
than read/write where available?)

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From: Shava Nerad Averett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 06:56:10 -0700

> than read/write where available?)

Dykki Settle ([email-masked]) and I ([email-masked]) have been hacking
out the design for doing this in mosaic.  What it would require in the
server, as we see it (without having gone into the code at all yet -- sorry
-- we just started as moo-users and are *planning* on putting one up...)
is to put the output that goes to the clients into a disk file and then
doing a timed refresh of that file as a URL.  We're going to play with 
this some, but if anyone else wants to also play with it as a concept and
tell us why we're stoned and it'll never work, please do..;)

Our basic thought is that we would refresh the file...

	Periodically (every 10 secs?)
	When a <more> button is hit
	After a string is entered in the input window.

Any thoughts?  Again, caveat, we don't know the moo code, but do know a
bit of html/mosaic stuff...

Shava