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/ >
-- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/1/03 http://freenetproject.org/
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