Re: [Troll] Level Web Pages

["Kenneth W. Flynn" <flynnk@astro.umd.edu>]

This is mostly moot, but:

At 08:39 PM 5/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
I generally use xpdf myself but that's not the problem.  For one not
>everyone has pdf viewing configured in the web browser.  Two even if it

Actually, barring those using lynx, they do.  New versions of Netscape & IE 
both contain a built in .pdf plugin; Mozilla may not due to licensing issues.

>Basically I want to web site to be "native" to the web not a refugee.
>Javascript and java are somewhat preferable to pdf.  (Pdf is best
>for online books/magazines that need precise formating IMHO.)

I could rapidly whip up a Java applet with basic zooming/scrolling of a gif 
in a couple of hours, using Swing.  This leads to another problem, though: 
only users of Netscape 6.0 beta (who did a custom install) or users of the 
Sun Java plugin will be able to view them.

Advantages: Takes about 2 hours to do.
Disadvantages: Still not quite native to the web, until Netscape 6 is no 
longer beta.

Javascript?  How?

If you'd like the above applet whipped up, send me the exact specs on what 
you want, and I'll try to get to it.  I could whip try to do it tonight, if 
you'd like; otherwise, it will have to wait until Tuesday--I'm going up to 
Philly for the holiday to see my girl.  :)

Later,
Kenn

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Kenneth W. Flynn              | Graduate Fellow
flynnk@astro.umd.edu          | Department of Astronomy
www.astro.umd.edu/~flynnk     | University of Maryland
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