Re: How should the image widget work?

Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> 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?).

Obviously not JPEG, as it's lossy.  There will of course be support for 
raw ARGB images to support client-side image decoding, and probably 
support for some other colour-spaces (YUV and friends) because a lot of 
the formats we can't predict are likely to have an intermediate 
decompressed form which is one of the colour-spaces in use today.

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

Yes, they will.

Phil