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- From: BORKI@zug.use.ch (Reto Burkhalter)
- Subject: Re: Amigas on the Net and TV!
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- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 8:37:01 GMT
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- >> Zoltan Hunt
- >> 09.04.1996
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- Z)> First, if you're displaying text on a TV, it can't be 80-column like on
- Z)> a computer. Second, some colours tend to run (try keeping RGB values
- Z)> below 230 in NTSC) and finally, with 28.8 modems, some pages I know
- Z)> could take near-fowever to load.
- Z)>
- Z)> I've come up with four suggestions for this:
- Z)>
- Z)> 1. ColorFonts (remember them?), instead of a big graphic, create a tag
- Z)> for using ColorFonts, then make 8-12 typefaces in maybe 3-4 sizes a
- Z)> standard part of the Amiga. These fonts could be then loaded of the
- Z)> harddrive as needed. Forget boring blacks & bles on a grey background.
-
- These are not problems to be solved by AT. The specs of HTML describe
- a few fonts and that's it.
- It makes no sense to write an AMIGA-Web Language (most Surf-Computers
- are PC's or UNIX-Machines with Netscape).
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- Z)> 2. IFF-ILBM support- for simple images (2-3) bitplanes these could be
- Z)> smaller and de-compress faster than GIFs + JPEGs.
-
- Not HTML Standard, sorry.
-
- Z)> I'm currently planning to re-do my Web page in an effort to create a
- Z)> "TV-friendly" page, remember TVs are best at displaying moving picture-
- Z)> not screens of hi-res text, I think with the idea of designing for the
- Z)> TV, we could have some really interesting things appearing.
-
- ??? No-one has a TV connected to the PC. (At least a few Amiga users.)
- I think a C1084 is much better than a TV (even to watch television).
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- Reto
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