[nycbug-talk] Firefox release party and NYC tech community

[George Georgalis]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 03:14:38PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
>George Georgalis wrote:
>
>>On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:58:13PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
>> 
>>
>>>George Georgalis wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>>for comparison, I removed all that and installed w3m...
>>>>
>>>>c11# pkg_add -r w3m
>>>>Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//Latest/w3m.tgz... Done.
>>>>Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/boehm-gc-6.2_2.tgz... Done.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>that's good to know, is it able to handle images ok with just these 
>>>packages tho?  i would assume one would still need png/jpeg/etc support 
>>>lib's somewhere.
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>Why? What do you expect a text browser to do with images? download them?
>>All that's done is render the ALT tag and maybe use the height and width
>>for layout. The big plus is ability to render pages like what those soho
>>firewalls generate...
>>
>> 
>>
>
>yea i agree, but the underlying system is going to have to know what to 
>do with those binary files correct?  if you do not have a library to 
>decode binary tiff files on your system, for example, then you will not 
>be able to view them right.  how is w3m able to get around this?
>

Maybe you should describe what you are talking about because I have no
idea.  ...A text browser doesn't do anything with binary files accept
maybe auto-magically launching an audio player or image viewer (at least
try). All this is done with the file's magic number (first two bytes)
and mime magic, eg the file (program) database.

// George


-- 
George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE
http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george at galis.org