There are still some obstacles, such as image loading time and browser availability, which need to be addressed. However, some solutions, which are discussed in other parts of this book, are being developed. For intance, a bandwidth increase and/or making the Photo CD format much more compressed are appropriate solutions in improving the image loading time (currently, a typical Photo CD file for a single photograph has a size of about 4-5Mb, which needs to be accessed for each operation). The problem of lack of a widespread Photo CD aware browser for all architectures will probably be resolved soon by just looking at the rate of version upgrades for the current browsers. It is anticipated that Photo CD aware browsers will be widespread on a very short time scale (almost all recent versions of current browsers are now Java aware).
Dan Haim
<haim@vt.edu>
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