Believe it or not, I have on occasion looked at items on the
news.povray.org during coffee breaks, and before and after my workday
has started, at my place of employment. I've also occasionally browsed
while waiting for an experiment to be  completed.  Thus, I am limited in
the software that I may and should load onto the PC's from which I
access the pov server.  Thus, I am limited to the default media players
which come with Netscape and Win95. Thus, I am unable to see many
versions of AVI, GIF, FLC, etc., animations.

I think that it would be kind and inclusive for everyone to use a
standard that everyone can see!  I bet that I am not the only one who
browses on different PC's than are used for his or her artwork.

Apologies to the community for using harsh rhetoric and inflammatory
analogies, most of the logic of which has gone over like a  lead
balloon.  As I have stated before,  many people may have personal
preferences for or against certain software companies, or restrictions
imposed from above on what kind of software they may use to access this
server.   Thus, while it is very appropriate in other povray fora to
suggest, "Download program X to accomplish taskY,"  I think it's not
that appropriate to suggest that everyone download every animation
format viewer to see things in this forum.

My inflammatory analogy was to compare this suggestion to a suggestion
that everyone download a browser capable of viewing V-cards and HTML
properly.  Or operating systems capable of running povwin3.1.

I wasn't offended or angered by anyone's actions or comments, but I am
indeed feel frustrated that I cannot see all of your wonderful work!

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I just moved this discussion over to the povray.animations group.  I realize
however that people who post here might only see this here so I just wanted to
also post this reply.

Bob

"Greg M. Johnson" <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in message
news:387F2E4A.B46CBEFE@my-dejanews.com...
> Believe it or not, I have on occasion looked at items on the
> news.povray.org during coffee breaks, and before and after my workday
> has started, at my place of employment. I've also occasionally browsed
> while waiting for an experiment to be  completed.  Thus, I am limited in
> the software that I may and should load onto the PC's from which I
> access the pov server.  Thus, I am limited to the default media players
> which come with Netscape and Win95. Thus, I am unable to see many
> versions of AVI, GIF, FLC, etc., animations.
>
> I think that it would be kind and inclusive for everyone to use a
> standard that everyone can see!  I bet that I am not the only one who
> browses on different PC's than are used for his or her artwork.
>
> Apologies to the community for using harsh rhetoric and inflammatory
> analogies, most of the logic of which has gone over like a  lead
> balloon.  As I have stated before,  many people may have personal
> preferences for or against certain software companies, or restrictions
> imposed from above on what kind of software they may use to access this
> server.   Thus, while it is very appropriate in other povray fora to
> suggest, "Download program X to accomplish taskY,"  I think it's not
> that appropriate to suggest that everyone download every animation
> format viewer to see things in this forum.
>
> My inflammatory analogy was to compare this suggestion to a suggestion
> that everyone download a browser capable of viewing V-cards and HTML
> properly.  Or operating systems capable of running povwin3.1.
>
> I wasn't offended or angered by anyone's actions or comments, but I am
> indeed feel frustrated that I cannot see all of your wonderful work!
>
>
>

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