[11302] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Laubach)
Mon Mar 28 18:20:50 1994
From: "Mark Laubach" <laubach@dirtdive.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 08:15:38 -0800
In-Reply-To: davew@wimsey.com (Dave Watson)
"Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?" (Mar 27, 3:39pm)
To: davew@wimsey.com (Dave Watson), com-priv@psi.com
On Mar 27, 3:39pm, Dave Watson wrote:
> Subject: Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
> I work in Mosaic, and the key to the 14.4k problem is a little magazine
> trick called design. Use small pictures and thumbnails of larger, and warn
> people of the size of larger pictures and files, which are either JPEGed or
> at least seperately linked (i.e. click HERE to get that 400k gif of the
> waterfall). Since you are designing sites to be visited and enjoyed, why
> let the lack of an extra link tick off the largest growing segment of the
> market.
The problem goes beyond Mosaic though. I have a fancy X-terminal here at
home that I connect to work using 2 B-channels of ISDN. This is better
performance than 14.4K, but they problem now has transmogrified into an
X11 performance problem as the html, audio, mpeg et al. get to my host
server at work just fine, but to display them in real time is impossible.
This just goes to point out that the MM problem is a systems one and not
just simply an application's problem.
Mark
