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- Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 14-Jun-93 HTML+ support for eqn & Pos..
- Dave_Raggett@hplb.hpl.hp (1775)
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- > Browsers can then be upgraded to display new formats without changing their
- > code at all. All you would need is a way of binding the MIME content type
- > to the function name for that format, e.g. via X resources or a config file.
- > The functions could be implemented as separate programs driven via pipes and
- > stdin/stdout or as dynamically linked library modules (Windows DLLs).
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- Yes, that sounds good. My favorite way to handle this is to have the
- browser create and manage an X sub-window over the area where the inset
- is to be displayed, and pass the window ID of the sub-window to the
- subprogram which understands the inset format, with the understanding
- that that program is to handle all events and refresh on the sub-window,
- but the browser gets to handle configuration and window movement.
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- Bill
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