Subject: Re: Graphics in MOO

From: Colman Reilly <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 07:17:24 -0700

>   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?)
     
     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..;)

This work . . see Colman's Hyper-Gallery on MediaMOO for data. I have a
prototype. Does _no-one_ ever read this list?

Colman
     
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