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- From: ip_boss@degsyd.syd.deg.csiro.au (Jack Churchill)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
- Subject: Re: MIME and xmh
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.194529.167@degsyd.syd.deg.csiro.au>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 09:45:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.104412.2241@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Organization: CSIRO, Exploration Geoscience
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- In article <1992Nov5.104412.2241@cc.ic.ac.uk>, mjh@cc.ic.ac.uk (Martyn at Rimmer) writes:
- > My question is: Is anyone working on a fully MIME compatible version
- > of xmh. The idea being that xmh would interpret a MIME message and
- > display the body parts as icons which when hit with the mouse button
- > would play the audio or display a image. Certain body parts (eg
- > richtext or gifs?) could be actually show in xmh itself by usings
- > a different widget or something. A grander solution might be to
- > invent a multi-media widget.
-
- What an excellent idea! Sounds a bit like how Microsoft Mail works on PCs.
- Does anyone have a realistic view on when such nice fronts ends will be
- available on unix systems?
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