On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:38:18PM -0500, Alan Shields wrote: > The interesting part comes in when we consider that the majority of > low-bandwidth users will probably be connecting to a higher-bandwidth fproxy > (casual users, and such). If the fproxy were to scale down the image > transferred to match the markup, then only when the user requested the > larger file would it be transmitted over the slower link, and the node would > still be prepped with the image.
Well actually fproxy should be running on localhost most of the time making the local transfer cost insignificant. > This would probably only be easily done in the reference implementation with > boxes that have ImageMagick loaded on them, as it would become a simple OS > call. I don't think that the Java->ImageMagick interface is too well developed ;-) Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010506/f9551e77/attachment.pgp>
