On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:21:09AM -0800, Taras wrote: > I thought about that. However can't you do incremental loading? > So somewhere the length of the document would be stored and > scrollbar would be sized accordingly. then as you get close enough > to the unloaded segment it would load it. > Isn't that possible? I suspect that's how isilo gets around the > problem
You could do that, but the problem grows expoentially when you take into account fonts (different font sizes, different character size per language, etc). Then you have to worry about images. Since each individual image's height/width isn't stored anywhere in the .pdb we have to open up each unique record, size it, and find out how it relates to the text to push the overall size of the page down. I havn't used isilo in a long time, but I believe that they support a much smaller subset of fonts/languages than we do. I'm not sure on how they handle images exactly. Since all of this is required for the accuracy of the scrollbar and the percentage pulldown, sacrifices might be acceptable. Maybe the viewer can be setup to render the whole page (or pages) during the palm's idle loop (in other words, while the user is reading the current page). There are multiple ways to solve this problem. The trouble is finding the time -- or someone to volunteer :) -- to do it. -- Adam McDaniel Array.org Calgary, AB, Canada _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
