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   Digital Man to Nightfox   
   Using Log-in Images   
   17 Nov 24 19:42:50   
   
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     Re: Using Log-in Images   
     By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sun Nov 17 2024 03:38 pm   
      
    >   Re: Using Log-in Images   
    >   By: Digital Man to Mortar on Sun Nov 17 2024 11:47 am   
    >   
    >  DM> The images you speak of are encoded and sent in Sixel format.   
    >  DM> Theoretically, yes, a Sixel image could be placed in-line in a message.   
    >  DM> Unfortunately, it'd the image data would be sent to every user's   
    >  DM> terminal that viewed that message (whether they supported Sixel or not)   
    >  DM> and appear as garbage to non-Sixel terminals. But it's an idea...!   
    >   
    > Maybe a message reader could do some parsing of the message and hide the   
    > sixel session if the user's terminal isn't capable of displaying sixel   
    > images.  It looks like sixel images start with an ESC character and end with   
    > ESC\   
      
   I think a better option to store image data separate from messge data. It's   
   not a flexible in layout as MIME or HTML (e.g. interleaving images and text),   
   but I think it would work better for BBSes.   
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                                               digital man (rob)   
      
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