Re: Using Log-in Images
  By: Mortar to Digital Man on Tue Nov 19 2024 12:33 am

 >   Re: Using Log-in Images
 >   By: Digital Man to Mortar on Sun Nov 17 2024 21:32:10
 >
 >  > There's a script that checks the terminal capabilities and sends the
 >  > sixel image if the terminal is capable of it.
 >
 > Ah.  Perhaps that same principle could be used for messages?

Sure, or at least similar, some of the time. There are a lot of ways to view messages from a Synchronet BBS: terminal protocols (e.g. Telnet, SSH, RLogin, Raw TCP) obviously, using different clients with different terminal emulation capabilities. Then there's NNTP, HTTP, Gopher, and IMAP Internet protocols. And then there's the traditional BBS message networking protocols (i.e. FidoNet, QWKnet). You can only really expect a sixel image to be supported/displayable in a vast minority of those situations. More likely, you'd store the bitmap image data in a traditional image format (say, PNG) and then convert to Sixel and send in that format only when appropriate. At other times (e.g. HTTP), you might just send the raw image data "as is" since you can expect the client (e.g. web browser) will be capable of displaying it.

 > Are login screens the only place sixel images can be used?

No, in theory you can send a sixel image any time. But you shouldn't unless you know the terminal is capable of displaying it.
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