On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:27:45AM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 06:26:09AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote:
> > Michael T. Babcock Wrote:
> > > 
> > > Compress a 60k JAR of HTML to 6k and insert it.  Then, retrieving any of
> > > the HTML pages gets you all of them.
> > > Insert the small images that appear on more than one page as a group
> > > again, which may be 150k or so, and insert it so that retrieving any of
> > > those common images gets you all of them for the site.
> >
> > All this is good. We just have to implement <ZIP key>//<file in ZIP>,
> > and all of this becomes possible.
> >
> 
> Sounds good. :)  Who's 'we'? (wishing I did Java programming ... )
Guess.
> 
> > What would a java applet gain over what we do now?
> > 
> > We can't make splitfiles much more transparent, except maybe for really
> > small ones, unless/until we can stream them rather better.
> 
> It wasn't a case of transparency as much as one of 'prettiness'.  With a JAVA
> applet one could more easily show the user the status of the download and/or
> acutally display the download itself.  Not sure about that one; I'd love to
> have a little applet showing me the progress on my splitfile download with the
> standard pause/resume/retry options on it (and change HTL), but its not worth
> fretting over ...
Um, I still don't see that there is much that we can do with a java
applet that we can't do with HTML that would actually make any
difference. We can have buttons in HTML; we can have a much prettier
display (Bombe was working on one) for the splitfile progress.
> 
> -- 
> Michael T. Babcock
> CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd.     (Hosting, Security, Consultation, Database, etc)
> http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/
> 

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Matthew Toseland
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