Re: Maintaining HTTP connections...
Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@hal.com)
Wed, 27 Jul 1994 17:52:10 -0500
In message <01HF7JV1TL2QDCPSC4@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu>, Dave Jones writes:
>John Ludeman <johnl@microsoft.com> writes:
>>I was on a page the other day that had thirty or forty (small) embedded
>>graphics.
>
>On dealing with the icons issue: I always thought it would be nice if
>browsers could deal with multi-image GIF files, making a pseudo-anchor
>for each image. The browser would fetch 1 moderate sized GIF file
>(.e.g. icons.gif) that contains several small images where you reference
>each image by it's image number (e.g. <IMG SRC="icons.gif#3> would mean
>the third image in icons.gif).
Neat idea! I suggest a refinement to select a rectangle from an image:
<IMG SRC="image-file#x,y,width,height">
e.g.
<IMG SRC="chemistry-font.gif#100,0,15,6">
Perhaps it's wise to use named, rather than positional, parameters, so
that somebody could pass font metric data too:
<IMG SRC="chemistry-font.gif#x=100;y=0;w=15;h=6;baseline=22;kern=0.6">
Dan