Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Displaying/Dissecting Compressed data

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:20:59 -0800 (PST)
> A tabbed widget might work better for multimedia, as the
> expensive decoding then only needs to done on demand.

The tabbed widget might not be the right answer for multimedia, unless
you like your Pamela Anderson GIFs small (as in "small enough to fit in
the hex dump pane") - for that level of fanciness, perhaps a separate
pop-up window would be better.  I see that as more like "Follow TCP
Stream" than like the hex dump window.