Re: JPS Windows only Club or Vendor only Club

[P3D Jonathan Gross <catalyst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
> >You can open up JPS file with JPEG viewers, if you can get at the files!
> >Unfortunately, VRex has chosen to post the images imbeded into HTML
> >files in a way that makes them hard to get at.
>
Larry Berlin wrote:
> *****  I strongly disagree with this assessment. HTML files are an easy way
> to access images of any type. ESPECIALLY on the Internet!!! It seems
> extremely appropriate!!!

You obviously have not read my original statement carefully enough to
understand the problem that I, and the other who have made similar
comments, are getting at.  Im not so naove (or foolish) as to argue
against embedded links in hypertext documents;  what I said was 
"Unfortunately, VRex has chosen to post the images imbedded into HTML
files IN A WAY that makes them hard to get at." (emphasis added).  My
objection is not that the images are included in an HTML page, but THE
WAY in which they are included.

Try retrieving those images without the Depth-Charge helper applette
(which a viewer may not be using for any number of legitimate reasons). 
Obviously in your zealous rage, you have never tried it. The only way I
know of to get at these JPS files is to save the HTML page as text, cut
the image URLs out of the file, and then feed the URLs into a browser. 
Why not just include a clear link to the image?  Instead of posting them
as simple links or embedded images, these URLs are tied to the helper
application:
<TD><EMBED src="mars_00688_17646_597x473.jps" type="image/x-jps"
WIDTH=597 HEIGHT=473 bg="#333333"
pluginspage="http://www.vrex.com/depthcharge"></TD>

Thank you Paul Talbot for posting clear links to the JPS images (digest
2187), but HIGHEST PRAISE AND THANKS GO TO ALEXANDER KLEIN who posts the
images as full resolution side-by-side pairs
(http://www.stereoscopy.com/mars).  This is the format that everyone can
use, and does not confine the images to the defacto, mediocre resolution
of a particular subset of display vendors.

Isnt a depth charge something that sinks in the ocean until it
explodes?  Perhaps the product should be renamed Delayed-Charge?  When
most software goes from Beta test to released product status, users are
legally obligated to purchase it, or stop using it.  If the software
never makes it to released status, then the program usually dies an
unsupported death.

Jon Gross


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