animation and the web

What are some of the technical problems standing in the
way of having ascii animations available real-time
from webpages?

In article <Czw...@world.std.com>, Fred Hapgood <fha...@world.std.com> wrote:
>
>What are some of the technical problems standing in the
>way of having ascii animations available real-time
>from webpages?

They can't be animated in the webpages without browsers having
special code for that (or defining a new "animated ASCII art"
object type for NeXT and Amiga platforms.)

To have them accessable, you'd have to define new MIME types for
them. Under X on a Unix box, try adding:

to your .mime-types:

video/x-vt100anim    .vt

to your .mailcap:

video/x-vt100anim    xterm -e cat %s;    test=test -n "$DISPLAY"

In theory that'll work. But I haven't tried it myself. :)
Unfortunately it goes by very quickly then vanishes; what you
need is an actual application that lets you control the speed and
doesn't exit when the animation is done. 

Joshua
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