[plug] Proxy module to convert common images to ASCII art?

[Jonathan Young]

Actually, that's a good angle that I hadn't thought of.  Run whatever 
software you choose to run to shrink the pages down to size and serve 
the miniature version off your own server and connect directly to that 
with the handheld or whatever.  Again though, if it is general web 
browsing over many different pages / sites it might be tough to do it 
'on the fly'.

Some more details of what the exact circumstances are from Chris' end 
might be useful at this point...


Nick Bannon wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:06:15PM +0800, Jonathan Young wrote:
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>>I might be wrong, but all of the ideas so far would need to be 
>>implemented server side.
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>[...]
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>Mostly, but that's easy to arrange by running your "shrinking proxy"
>on your home ADSL and saving bytes across your expensive UMTS or GPRS
>mobile link.
>
>Even without that, running proxies locally can still be useful. As you
>mentioned, you can turn images and plugins off, but with these let you
>make sure gzip compression is being asked for, block classes of images
>or hosts, cache files more aggressively, etc.
>
>Nick.
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