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| I guess my question is: What app are most folks using? I'd want to address the widest audience possible. Hmm...sounds like a question for lugnet.cad... Ben -- Ben Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) I've mapped both dat and mpd to ldlite. I had them set to l3lab for a while; l3lab didn't come up as quickly as it pops up dialog boxes if it hits any errors in the file which slows down the action. I think I remember seeing some folks mapping (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) I'm not sure if I follow. You can't do much from the server end to optimize this. The user selects which app to associate to the different mime-types. All the server has to do is to declare what mime-type a file is, and the browser launches (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Quite possibly I don't have a clue what I'm doing. The mime type you listed and that are listed in the FAQ have the extension: .dat and an application type: application/x-ldlite application/x-ldraw etc. If it doesn't matter, why specify then? By the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) The application matters to the user/browser, but not the server. The application type tells the browser what kind of app to launch. This allows a greater flexability for the end-user. See, from the server end, an application type doesn't map (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Ding! (Insert light bulb here) Oooooohh! Thanks! I appreciate it, now I'll setup marsbase.com I'm keeping the survey though. 8) Ben -- Ben Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:FrIt4K.289@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) That one's for files which use the LDLite extensions to LDraw: 0 COLOUR, 0 SCALE, 0 ROTATE, etc., etc. The real question: what if a file is both MPD and LDL? Then which mime-type should it be? Steve (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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