Can anyone see any of it?
I agree with the point about browsers, too, but many people already have
browsers. Santiago, if you think a browser does too much, have a look at
Communicator. Endless problems coz it's doing too much.
I think our model audience should be students who have temporary accounts on
machines one must accept as they happen to be set up. Even downloading in such
an environment can be a fairly complex operation.
santiago pereson wrote:
> At 04:15 +0100 9/10/97, Monika Wunderer wrote:
> >so the oudeis ship would be additional to the webstages - or is this just
> >a technical additional here?
>
> the oudeis ship would _be_ the webstage. in fact a different webstage for
> each spectator, since they will change the way it looks (i.e. opening some
> of the windows and not others, participating in the MOO, clicking on the
> choros, etc.)
>
> >but as you wrote it down, it is mainly a bunch of windows they can
> >choose?
> >wouldn't an additional applet slow it down even more?
>
> the idea would be to use the application _instead_ of using a browser.
> audience should download this thing before the performance.
>
> this would in fact make the whole thing a lot (a lot lot) faster, for two
> reasons:
>
> - a browser takes care of lots of things, has lots of capabilities, and
> thus is not the best at anything (there's a saying here, something like 'he
> knows a bit about everything but nothing about anything')
>
> - most of the images can be within the program, so there's no need to
> download any graphic files during the performance but the ones generated in
> real-time. (i.e. every time i connect to oudeis' website i have to download
> the big logo. if i had the logo on my computer, i wouldn't have to download
> it. by using the program --the ship-- i wouldn't even have to wait for the
> image to appear.)
>
> >should we give our audience the impression to enter a ship? to "go on a
> >trip" with us, exploring oudeis??
>
> i think this is a good one. maybe this can be done for the we audience
> during the parodos or when they open the program (like those windows that
> appear when you open programs like netscape of office programs, but with an
> animation).
>
> best,
>
> santiago
>
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>
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