From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 11:40:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9538737B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:40:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (www.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA8A43F85 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:40:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2414F1FA9F; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:40:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:40:12 -0500 X-Epoch: 1044560412 X-Sasl-enc: HHu8UpNIDCQJgpgmmyWz4Q Received: from sparky (dialup-67.28.73.36.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.28.73.36]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264B1148CA; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:40:10 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran , Kenzo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manufacturing References: <3E427E09.10005@potentialtech.com> <3E429367.6050403@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jud Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:40:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3E429367.6050403@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Opera7.01/Win32 M2 build 2651 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:55:03 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > Kenzo wrote: > >> I don't think that they will view CAD drawings. >> Our webmaster will create an application that will make it easy for the >> people posting the pictures to load them into the server. > > I doubt that will work, but if it does, I'd love to hear about it. > > The reason I don't think it will work is that engineering drawings on a > computer screen usually require a lot of zooming in/out to be useful, and > I don't know of any browsers that will give you that control. [snip] Opera does. It is also quite small and fast. Not free unless you agree to an ad banner, though. People generally have reported better results with the Linux version running on FreeBSD with Linux emulation than the FreeBSD native version, but YMMV - many of the complaints about the native version concern the fact that there aren't FreeBSD versions of popular plugins, which is something you may not be at all concerned with. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message