From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO additions Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:07 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036002192 4568 80.91.224.249 (30 Oct 2002 18:23:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186xUf-0001B2-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:23:05 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186xZr-0001Yl-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:28:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186xUS-0006m0-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:22:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wTs-0007Jx-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186wTo-0007GG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186wTn-0007FQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 186wTn-00030R-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:07 -0500 Original-To: d.love@dl.ac.uk In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on 29 Oct 2002 18:04:56 +0000) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8957 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8957 You don't think W3 should be able to render stuff which essentially depends on them? I agree that the main use of HTML background images is to make pages more-or-less unusable, but that's not the point. I wasn't thinking in terms of W3, but now that you mention it, why *isn't* that the point? Anyhow, I think there are other applications of miles' implementation, which is what I was thinking of. What are the other applications? > * Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap > the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care > with the colour used for the transparent regions.) > > Could someone explain what good this would do? Surely it's useful not to have to maintain two versions of each (or nearly each) image, and code to deal with them? Could you explain the connection? You're being rather terse, and I don't understand the situation enough to understand. I don't know anything about these image formats except their names. I don't know their capabilities, and I don't know which systems support them.