Re: new sysinstall

[Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:53:36 +0200
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

JS> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:32:40AM +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
JS> > IV> Hmm, that could be a problem - at the moment I can't out any way
JS> > IV> to make a usable progress indicator in a web environment.
JS> > 
JS> > 	It can be done with so called server push methods using a
JS> > Content-type of multipart/x-mixed-replace, there's a description of
JS> > the technique at
JS> > http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net-sites/pushpull.html.
JS> > 
JS> > 	There's a 67 line C program to play a sequence of GIF images by
JS> > server push at http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net-sites/mozilla/doit.c.
JS> > It's a pretty simple technique that I think has been largely forgotten
JS> > among animated gifs, shockwave and fancy JavaScript.
JS> 
JS> I have never heard of it. Is it a Netscape feature from the good old
JS> days? Which browser have support?
JS> 
JS> Anyway, both are dead links ;-)

	Doh! net_sites not net-sites - sorry.

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