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

From: Clay Luther <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 08:49:48 -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.

I don't understand what you mean to say here.  All I was thinking was using
(perhaps MIME) bitmaps to simply diplay pictures, such as of a room or of
an object or player.  These would be more like thumbnails than accurate
depictions of settings (I assume you meant you couldn't, for instance, place
a person's picture in the proper location on a room's picture).

All I am suggesting with MIME is the standard engine to encode/decode thumbnail
bitmaps.

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Clay Luther                              [email-masked]
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I dunno.

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From: Larry Masinter <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 17:46:04 -0800

> All I am suggesting with MIME is the standard engine to encode/decode thumbnail

a) MIME isn't a standard (yet).

b) MIME isn't an engine. There may be MIME viewers around, but for the
most part, MIME just says how to say what is a bitmap.

c) What MIME says about bitmaps isn't good for 'thumbnail
   bitmaps', since all it says about bitmaps at all is 'image/gif'.