Eric: ... i expect that the authors of MC are used to
vectorial drawing rather than bitmap. Personally, for
anything detailed bitmaps are better, unless your
doing transformations.
Alain: It would be really cool if we adopted PNG as
our graphics format. It's new, light-weight,
Web-savvy, buzzword-compliant, standards-based (W3C),
widely-supported ... It is essentially vector-based
graphics with bitmap-like rendering.
Alain: The graphics type that we will be using is
undoubtedly related to the other programming work
going on right now (e.g. the interpreter). Any
comments from our programmers?
Eric: Since MC does not support "doMenu" as
extensively as HC i do not forsee working on the menus
till spring.
Alain: Work on things that are currently supported by
the MetaCard engin, right?
Eric: I will produce between 20 and 100 basic icons
(arrows, applications, sound volume, obvious stuff) in
a bitmap format.
Alain: Bitmapped graphics are nicer but resolution
dependent.
Eric: i shall indeed, do a bit of surgery on our
unfortunate hand icon (perhaps it is a cousin of
Thing?)
Alain: (laughter)
Eric: If the interface looks mac or pc is ok by me but
it does need improvement. Oh, i favor monaco or geneva
for the default script editor - again, are they
supported in the pc environment?
Alain: Do we have to impose the font? Couldn't we have
a scheme functionally similar to the Macintosh's
resource-fork idea (e.g. switch between fonts without
any code-modifications).
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