RE: While we are at it

Chris Hall ([email protected])
Thu, 20 Apr 95 11:23:00 PDT

This kind of local file caching is a Browser implementation issue. There are
many ways to do it, and some browsers will be smarter at caching than other
browsers. Putting the local name into the the Anchor file is far to static -
What happens if you add a new drive to your machine, and your CD-ROM drive
isn't where it was.

Cheers
Chris

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From: Robert Weideman
To: www-vrml
Subject: While we are at it
Date: Thursday, April 20, 1995 9:18AM

Re: Rikk's suggestion on WWWAnchor:

WWWAnchor {
name "" # SFString
description "" # SFString
map NONE # SFEnum
}

What about allowing name "" to support multiple links, so that the browser
could be told name "file:///localfile.doc http://www.remote.com/foo.html".
The browser could then be configured to look first at a local CD for
content, resort to the http if *file not found* error

We've also gotten alot of requests for multiple links on a single
mouse event (i.e. a click on WWWAnchor causes many actions). We think
this is a 2.0 thing.

Robert