Re: I wanna write an RFC

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > In which case you're gnus wouldn't try and go get it,
> 
> ...and you end up not seeing the image.  :-(
> 
> The nice thing about X-Face is that it's small (OK, relatively small) so
> it can be shipped off with every message.
> 
> Not to mention the problem grabbing things via web to show a mail message
> is slow, and that w3 itself is big, loads slowly and is somewhat bulky
> (no offense to Bill who is doing everything in his power to make it more
> usable.)

Emacs/W3 is probably going to die very soon, due to lack of time and
interest on my part.  I just can't afford the time any more.  I've got
funner things like digging up my passport and writing my presentation for
japan to worry about. :)

_But_ the image fetching stuff could easily be done just with the URL
package, which is much smaller than Emacs/W3.

You could asynchronously fetch the image and have some nice persistent
cache of them, etc.  If the fetch did not complete by the time you have
moved onto another article, you just don't see it, but it would still go
into the cache.  This would be 

> A hard-core Emacs groupie that I am, I can't bring myself to use w3
> seriously.

I'd be interested to see if anybody could plug the mozilla stuff into an
XEmacs frame once the dynamic loading stuff gets finished off.

-Bill P.