Re: Standardizing new HTML features

Tony Sanders (sanders@bsdi.com)
Thu, 29 Apr 1993 17:22:05 -0500


> Building viewers so that they can also operate on some pre-existing
> window, instead of just creating their own, is an excellent idea. I'm
> always surprised when otherwise-wonderful viewers, such as Ghostscript
> or xv, don't do this from the start. Probably just doesn't occur to
> their authors. Also, it seems tricky to do with most (all that I know
> of) Xt-based toolkits.
Ghostscript 2.5.2 does this.
GHOSTVIEW="__window_id__"
DISPLAY="whatever"
export GHOSTVIEW DISPLAY

Ghostview 1.4.1 uses this feature.
Now we just have to fix xloadimage, mpeg_play, (and you said you had a
fixed xv).

--sanders@bsdi.com