Re: X-Face and depth

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

luis fernandes <elf@ee.ryerson.ca> writes:

> I was thinking the same thing so it must be a good  idea. 

There you go.  :-)

I've now implemented a set of functions in gnus-fun.el that basically
splits up and puts back together again bit planes.  I couldn't find
any ppm command for doing anything like that, so I wrote it in Lisp.

>     larsi> Do we want to encourage people to add even more data to
>     larsi> the headers?
>
> As opposed to adding it to the body-- i.e. spam? 

But sensible people don't do that.  Sensible people might very well
put something like this in the headers.

> Another idea: what if there were various image formats of Face
> headers:
>
> X-Gif-Face:
> X-Jpg-Face:
> X-Png-Face: 

The nice thing about X-Face headers is that they are so constrained.
If people start posting 1024x768 GIF images in their headers, I think
people will be annoyed.

I've had a quick peek at the size of a 48x48x2 "extended" X-Face and
the equivalent GIF file, and the "extended" X-Face was shorter.  Which
is nice.

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