On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> OK, so if you plug support for a new data file format into HDX and/or
> STIL then the new feature would filter down into the applications that
> use them?
Yes, but each application filters these using its data model, so
everything is a spectrum to SPLAT and a table to TOPCAT etc. Treeview
stands a bit apart from this and has a much more generalised model.
> Otherwise it is on an application by application basis?
This can also happen (largely for efficiency and historical reasons). For
instance SPLAT supports FITS images and NDFs directly, although it can
also access these using HDX. SoG has its own ideas about most things.
Peter.
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