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Support for displaying images #27

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Lots of RSS feeds contain images inside entries. Many feeds are meant for
images only like Flickr feeds. RSS Reader could display them using server
to convert them into PNG format and also to make them smaller for faster
downloading.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tlaukka...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2008 at 11:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi Tommi/Irving

Thanks once again for the great work you guys have put into this particular 
midlet. 
Regarding the issue for supporting the dispay of images; I have managed to find 
the 
source code that will assist in this process. I realise that you have marked 
this 
particular issue as low priority but would like to know if you could assist 
with 
incorporating this code into the midlet.

The source code is for the servlet that will assist with the conversion of 
images to 
mobile phone images as well as a midlet that allows the mobile phone to connect 
to 
this servlet and download the converted image.

http://java.sun.com/developer/J2METechTips/2001/tt0820.html#tip2

Regards
OMP

Original comment by ramiz...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2008 at 5:42

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I'll put this here as I have also put in at substanceofcode.com
I could help. I think that to reduce requests to the servlet, it would be 
better and 
simpler to have the servlet process the whole URL for the RSS Feed to process 
the 
images. This would allow one request to the servlet and one request getting of 
the 
data from the servlet. The data received would contain a directory of the image 
URLs 
and lengths of the images followed by the binary data. We could adapt the 
current 
midlet code to be used by the servlet to parse the XML and extract the image 
URLs 
and convert them.

Another question is where will the servlet reside? Depending on the traffic, it 
may 
cost some $$s to host the servlet on a server. So, this is an issue. If you 
count 
all versions downloaded by the RSS reader, it is over 48,000 downloads. So, we 
would 
have to account for traffic for potentially this amount of users over time as 
people 
get the latest version.

Regards,

Irving

Original comment by ibunto...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2008 at 5:20