Re: How should the image widget work?

On Thu, January 20, 2005 8:14 pm, Phil said:
> Michiel ten Hagen wrote:
>> Separating image specific widgets would also alllow that Y can be
>> compiled without these widgets to save memory if Y would be used in
>> embedded systems.
>
> I suspect that even embedded systems will find it cheaper to store and
> decompress a 66KiB JPEG serverside than to transfer a 1.62MiB ARGB
> pixmap from client to server.

Agreed.  But when the Foobar3000 image format is introduced, but the Y
server doesn't support that format, there should be a fallback (maybe
re-encode the image as PNG or JPEG before sending to the nonsupporting
server?).

I imagine the same questions will come up when thinking about video, and
what about audio transport?

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