[Twisted-web] Off topic: streaming animated GIFs
Tommi Virtanen
tv at twistedmatrix.com
Wed Dec 21 02:02:18 MST 2005
Mike Pelletier wrote:
> This is a really great idea! Are there any gotchas that should be mentioned?
> Does the GIF header not specify the number of frames? And even if the GIF
> isn't looped, would browsers be smart enough to discard data from previous
> frames? It seems like it might cause what would effectively be a memory leak
> on the browser.
The standard trick is to make the containing html page (or iframe)
refresh itself every once in a while, to free the memory etc.
I've written a (prototype of a) video surveillance system long, long ago
in the era of Perl CGIs, with this basic architecture. It worked well
enough to never cause any negative feedback.
> Just wondering whether this is suitable to be applied whenever you wished you
> could just write to a frame buffer on a client, or if it should be used
> sparringly for brief special effects.
For generic use, nevow.canvas, SVG+CSS+AJAX or XUL (nufox?) or something
like that sounds a lot better.
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