X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,8b416d7017fb35fa X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-26 16:16:24 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!scipio.cyberstore.ca!vanbc.wimsey.com!news.bc.net!news.mic.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.ucalgary.ca!jsbell From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell) Subject: Re: animation and the web Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 23:48:42 GMT References: Organization: University Computing Services (The University of Calgary) Lines: 31 In article , Fred Hapgood wrote: > >What are some of the technical problems standing in the >way of having ascii animations available real-time >from webpages? They can't be animated in the webpages without browsers having special code for that (or defining a new "animated ASCII art" object type for NeXT and Amiga platforms.) To have them accessable, you'd have to define new MIME types for them. Under X on a Unix box, try adding: to your .mime-types: video/x-vt100anim .vt to your .mailcap: video/x-vt100anim xterm -e cat %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" In theory that'll work. But I haven't tried it myself. :) Unfortunately it goes by very quickly then vanishes; what you need is an actual application that lets you control the speed and doesn't exit when the animation is done. Joshua -- "There's far too much to take in here, | MIME: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca more to find than can ever be found." | WWW: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~jsbell/ - Tim Rice, "The Circle of Life" |