On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:25 +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> Erm, when the plugin is not available, the png/jpg/svg images are
> *purely* there for fallback. To give an idea of the contents that should
> be there. Not for perfect rendering or whatever. The user should still
> install the plugin to get the functionality he needs (and we should
> inform him which plugin he misses).
As a user, I'd expect to *only* see a box saying, "You need plug-in X to
view this!" with simple directions on how/where to acquire said plug-in.
What I don't want is a potentially fairly inaccurate image in a document
that just shouldn't be there. I mean, from what you're suggesting,
there's almost the implication that you'll be distributing documents
with these images stored with/in them whether they are needed or not,
just in case. So not only are you making my documents look worse, when
I want people to view them properly by grabbing the plug-in, you're also
significantly increasing the file size too!
Perhaps that's just me being twisted by the way things tend to already
work in the software of today (i.e. if you ain't got the functionality,
you ain't seeing nothin') and you, the AbiWord developer, are actually
trying to do me, the user, a favour.
That's my blunt but honest opinion as an individual AbiWord user. Of
course, other users may take a more appreciative tone.
-- - Charlie Charles Goodwin <charlie@vexi.org> Online @ http://charlie.vexico.comReceived on Tue Jan 11 17:50:37 2005
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