Re: new sysinstall

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:32:40AM +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> IV> Hmm, that could be a problem - at the moment I can't out any way to make
> IV> a usable progress indicator in a web environment.
> 
> 	It can be done with so called server push methods using a
> Content-type of multipart/x-mixed-replace, there's a description of
> the technique at http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net-sites/pushpull.html.
> 
> 	There's a 67 line C program to play a sequence of GIF images by
> server push at http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net-sites/mozilla/doit.c. It's
> a pretty simple technique that I think has been largely forgotten among
> animated gifs, shockwave and fancy JavaScript.

I have never heard of it. Is it a Netscape feature from the good old days?
Which browser have support?

Anyway, both are dead links ;-)

Joerg