Re: [Pipmak-Users] Great Tool!!

[Urs H. <ur...@an...>]

Andrea Viarengo wrote:

> [...]
>> - If you can, you should configure your web server to send MIME type
>> application/octet-stream for *.pipmak files. Right now, it sends
>> text/plain, which causes the file to show up as gibberish in a
>> browser window instead of being downloaded.
> 
> Well, I tryed to add the attribute type="application/octet-stream"
> to the tag <A Href=....>, using Firefox, now I can get the
> property of the link and obtain the correct target type,
> instead IE seems ignore the attribute...but it propose the same
> the saving dialog...I don't known the behaviour with Safari...
> peharps it's better that put pipmak file in a zip file?

In case the type attribute of your link and the content-type from the
server differ, it is better to believe the server, I guess. So you
should try to configure your server correctly. If your server is
apache, you can try this: Add the file .htaccess to your directory,
containing the line
AddType application/octet-stream .pipmak
Though this does only work if you have the needed rights. If you have
the possibility to modify the main configuration of the server, you can
add this line there and it will take affect globally.

> [...]

> About screen resolution, do you think it's difficult make a function
> pipmak.setscreensize? I think you must get all possible resolution
> from the graphic card and put in an array, and after choose one of
> those.

I think the choice of resolution should be the job of the engine only
(or of the user of course). The reason is, that there are many screens
that only work with one resolution. They often can do interpolation
themselves, if the resolution doesn't match, but the graphic card can
do that much better. On the other hand, I think it would be a good idea
to be able to provide a "recommended resolution" to the engine that can
then decide for itself. 

> [...]

Anyway, I didn't have time to look at your work up to now, because I'm
in a shortage of time. I'm looking forward to do that in a month, when
I have more time.

Greetings