Re: MagicPoint [was: tlug: Draft of June 13 TLUG ... ]

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 07:42:47PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> Let's write an extension to HTML.  (Why, oh, why, why did they have to
> write a new language?)

"Language" may be a bit of an overstatement, but I agree that the
ability to render standardized markup like HTML would be nice.
(Whoa... what if Mozilla had a presentation mode?!!)

[Geez -- the more I think about it, this is *exactly* what I want: the
ability to feed html pages to a rendering engine that supports
fullscreen (or windowed) presentations.  I think I'll join the
mozilla-wishlist mailing list. :-)]

> 
> Dis is very cool.
> 
>     Rex> Yerk.  Now 45 seconds into playing with it.
> 
> I didn't last that long before I managed to crash it.  (Just as well,
> I have other work to do ;-)  But this is VERY cool.

Icy, even.

To be fair, it is clearly identified as an alpha release, but I suspect
that not enough people even know about MagicPoint (how did you hear
about it, Craig?).  I'll send a note to the authors to see if they're
interested in a wider audience -- the slashdot folks would probably be
interested.

Cheers,
-- 
Rex
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