Re: [MacPerl] Server push

[jar@hopf.dnai.com (yeah)]

At 2:29 AM 03/20/96, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:

+-Has anybody ever played with server push or "the poor man's animation", as
+-some people call it? Could you provide me with a simple example?

I thought "poor man's animation" was using a multi-image GIF 89
file, which savvy browsers (that is: netscape 2.X) are able to
animate without relying on a steady stream of frames from the server.

If _that's_ what you want, throw the string "animaker" at the Internet
search engine of your choice. I believe you may find a copy at
<URL:http://www.starnine.com> (home of WebSTAR). Animaker will
"assemble" individual frames into a single GIF file, which you can
serve normally. Non-savvy browsers will display only the first,
or possibly the last frame.

Regarding true server-push, I believe that you need MacPerl 5.X,
and the most current CGI glue (dated late december '95 or later). Also,
I believe that recent glue distributions may include a simple push
example... in fact I know this has been discussed before so you may
wish to use one of the searchable archives of this list (I believe
there is one at <URL:http://www.unimelb.edu.au/~ssilcot/ma/>, which is
Sandra Silcot's searchable mail archive.

--
matt.