At 4:52 PM -0800 on 11/9/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>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.
I thaught PNG was bitmap(?!)
>
>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?
We need a fast format -- and PNG compression can be SLOW [decompression is
OK]. Now, we could export to a "small stack" format, which would use
highly-compressed graphics, though.
However, the interpreter could not care less about the graphics format [as
long as it's within reason].
>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?
Ummm... They probably have Courier, but not Monoco or Geneva.
>
>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).
Sure -- no reason it can't be a property, as in HyperCard.
