[11322] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Living on the tiles (was Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Tue Mar 29 07:36:40 1994
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 20:25:33 EST
From: stpeters@bird.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: PAUL@tdr.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
>From: Paul Robinson <PAUL@tdr.com>
>So it applies here. If something like Mosaic had been designed for a
>slower terminal line, it would have been designed so that it would only
>send data as things changed, would send and use line drawing and area
>drawing primitives such as squares, rectangles, circles or whatever, would
>have standard defined fonts and so on. So that you send as little
>information as you can, and only when you have to. This allows you to
>effectively increase the bandwidth. But you have to design for that.
Paul, Mosaic is a client for viewing what's on various kinds of servers
on the net. "Only send data as things change" is a bogus concept here;
Mosaic only receives data, from independent servers that have no way of
knowing what Mosaic is already displaying.
The "standard defined fonts" is part of Mosaic; it does not download
fonts.
The "drawing primitives" are part of PostScript, one of the MIME
content types that Mosaic accepts.
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
