Bernie,
After reading what you'd said about the graphics ID etc, I'd about given
up. Then you made a comment that solved the whole problem!
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:07:34 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> But if some server sends HTML files as plain/text (instead of plain/html) -
> shouldn't we add the capability to Arachne to notice such failures as well?
> What we would end up getting would be bloatware since every downloaded file
> would needed to be checked before being proccessed.
don't laugh ... you've got to promise.
Right now Arachne has a cute little box that shows up saying it can't ID
what type of file it is, and it gives us options to view as text, save,
etc. [I've been having trouble with downloaded zip files showing up as
text on the screen but that's another subject entirely.]
And right now we can take any page file [graphics, page frames, etc] to
its own screen with a right-click on it.
If Arachne would use the "what do I do with it" approach on 'red boxes'
when we did right-click, WE could tell Arachne 'view as gif, view as
jpg' .. ?
Since htt (?) renames the files anyway, like someone mentioned earlier,
that option shouldn't take up much more space in core.exe at all.
Most of the time the graphics are not essential to a page. But
a couple of times I've had problems where onmouseover stuff was very
graphics linked.
But on to the big clue you gave me, which is a major problem on some
pages: http being sent as text rather than html
Same option possible with 'right click' -- except when right click on
what Arachne believes is TXT http page the little box comes up and we
can say view as html or text. ??
Wouldn't that avoid the bloat of Arachne having to figure out what
graphic was which and what pages are sent down with wrong designator?
Instead of bloating up Arachne core.exe use wetware to make a decision
if a decision even needs to be made??
Doesn't that make more sense? [And it is so totally unlike WinXXX]
* If graphics aren't essential, don't screw with trying to ID & rename
them in Arachne if they come down 'wrong'
* If TXT page right clicked, user decides if Arachne should view as html
What do you think?
l.d.
P.S. Yeah, I have C compiler and scads of lib files. Don't have time
to use them most of the time. I can remember when it was BBS days and
no such thing as attached files -- we'd transfer utilities & stuff in
C source and recipient could compile when the got the "message." <G>
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