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- > From "(Arnold Bloemer)" <bloemer@tnt.uni-hannover.dbp.de>
- > > From marca@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu Wed Apr 28 01:17:16 1993
- > > ...
- > > Also, I'm not certain that any multimedia data other than images needs
- > > to be specifiable as inlined/included. Things like audio and MPEG can
- > > simply be pointed at from an anchor (as Mosaic does) and forked to
- > > external viewers or processed internally, whichever the browser
- > > prefers -- and with inlined images the whole thing will be iconic
- > > anyway.
- >
- > But it is much more impressive and intuitive, when you click on an
- > image and it starts moving in place. Paradise Software Inc. have a demo
- > which shows a hypermedia newspaper. In that demo there are two images
- > which serve as anchors to two movies. When you start the movies they
- > will run at the location of the images. I showed the demo to a couple
- > of people and all were very impressed.
- There are two parts to this, auto-inlining and inlining on selection.
-
- There is nothing to prevent browers from inlining on selection right now,
- though it would be nice if you could pass a window id to xv and not have
- to build in all that code. Having browsers and external viewers cooperate
- should be an easy project. Any volunteers?
-
- I think in 10 years auto-inlining anchors (for other than iconic purposes,
- which is what <A><IMG...></A> really does) will be considered the GOTO of
- hypertext. Good document design should minimize them, but they are handy
- when you are in deep shaving cream.
-
- see also: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Elements/A.html
-
- It talks about REL=Embed which is pretty interesting for doing outlines.
-
- > > I would certainly love to hear discussion about what to do with text
- > > flow -- it's starting to become a popular request.
- > I would like this feature also very much.
- Wouldn't adding a <IMG ALIGN="flow"> hint do the job? I haven't researched
- all the different ways people like to flow text around images but I think
- this would solve 80% of the problem (which is that people don't want all
- that empty space). I don't see anything preventing browsers from flowing
- text right now.
-
- --sanders
-
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