Subj : Using Log-in Images
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Nov 17 2024 07:42 pm

 Re: Using Log-in Images
 By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sun Nov 17 2024 03:38 pm

>   Re: Using Log-in Images
>   By: Digital Man to Mortar on Sun Nov 17 2024 11:47 am
>
>  DM> The images you speak of are encoded and sent in Sixel format.
>  DM> Theoretically, yes, a Sixel image could be placed in-line in a message.
>  DM> Unfortunately, it'd the image data would be sent to every user's
>  DM> terminal that viewed that message (whether they supported Sixel or not)
>  DM> and appear as garbage to non-Sixel terminals. But it's an idea...!
>
> Maybe a message reader could do some parsing of the message and hide the
> sixel session if the user's terminal isn't capable of displaying sixel
> images.  It looks like sixel images start with an ESC character and end with
> ESC\

I think a better option to store image data separate from messge data. It's not a flexible in layout as MIME or HTML (e.g. interleaving images and text), but I think it would work better for BBSes.
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