From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 8 07:21:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA28284 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 07:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from doorstep.unety.net (root@usi-00-10.Naperville.unety.net [204.70.107.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA28277 Mon, 8 Apr 1996 07:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webster.unety.net (webster.unety.net [206.31.202.8]) by doorstep.unety.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA02479; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:16:18 -0500 Received: by webster.unety.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BB252C.664669E0@webster.unety.net>; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:18:50 -0500 Message-ID: <01BB252C.664669E0@webster.unety.net> From: Jim Fleming To: "'Jordan K. Hubbard'" , Terry Lambert Cc: "gpalmer@freefall.freebsd.org" , "hackers@freefall.freebsd.org" , Jeffrey Hsu Subject: RE: Netscape install of FreeBSD Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:18:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sunday, April 07, 1996 4:41 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard[SMTP:jkh@time.cdrom.com] wrote: @ @I would far prefer to generate gifs on the fly that represented pie @charts, colored bar graphs (representing the sizes of your various @partitions and free space) and such, but the idea of adding a @generalized rendering API to this whole thing finally brought me up @short with the realization that it was a whole 'nother engineering @project unto itself and I should probably just make the existing tools @work a little nicer before even contemplating such a massive project. @ @ Jordan @ ANSI X3.110 handles this sort of thing... see my four part series in BYTE magazine...:-) a group in the Soviet Union has developed a Netscape Plug-In...which they claim will be available in April...that's right this is April...:-) -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net