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Re: package/library for distributing images and sound
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Tue Nov 7 16:03:23 1995
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 09:38:12 -0800
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: alex@dztech.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Alex,
> I was just thinking aloud after I had a look at some demo code for animations.
> Typicaly, what seems to happen, people download images one by one, and then
> they animate them using some method.
>
> Well, this seems to be a bit of a waste, why not come up with a package that
> would have classes for inteligently compressing the images or sounds,
downloading
> just the library binary (with images and sounds), decompressing them on the
> fly, and playing/animating the images for as long as they are in the context,
> and after they are out of the context, they would get automaticaly deleted....
>
> I think that a method where by only the DIFFs of images are stored, would
> decrease the download times, thereby increasing the popularity of Java powered
> HTML pages...
Try contacting DimensionX. They have developed exactly what you are
talking about and it works great! Try Karl Jacob (kaj@dimensionx.com).
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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