etoy space invader tutorial (alpha)

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sun Nov 4 08:41:36 UTC 2001


Alan Kay wrote:
> 
> John and Karl --
> 
> The blurry images are ones that have not yet been downloaded
> automatically from the server. 
Explains why they are hard to make sence of.


> What is the advantage of putting a Geemail in a window? -- it already
> has scrollbars. (You may not think so because they are very much
> delayed in appearing because of the slow picture download, but a
> mouseover the Geemail will eventually make them appear.)

Why do the images take so long ? Is each image gzipped by it self
and upploaded ? Could it speed stuff up if they got zipped in a
archive with the relatively new archive zip tool so the 
time wasted on each part got eliminated ?

Karl




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