2008/12/15 Paul Pedriana <[email protected]>: > Thanks. I didn't mean to suggest something like this should be part of > WebKit. I was wondering if anybody had any experience they could share that > might help me or others come to faster conclusions about the usefulness or > feasibility of this in custom ports. If I implement the formats below I can > report back on my results and possibly donate to ports that might be > interested in this, such as OWB.
Well, for CE device oriented applications the feasibility of the compression really comes down to the balance between memory consumption and CPU speed. If you compress, you will (potentially) spend lots of time decompressing the images but can view bigger pages. If you don't, it will be faster but limit the amount of in-memory images. That said, Federico Mena Quintero did some research about this few years ago: http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2005-11.html#moz-images I'm not sure if that idea has realized itself in any project though. At least lazy decompression of images based on visibility on the screen sounds like a great idea (eg. when you read only 25% of a very long page with images, like planets), I wonder if anyone is doing that already in browser engines? -- Kalle Vahlman, [email protected] Powered by http://movial.fi Interesting stuff at http://sandbox.movial.com See also http://syslog.movial.fi _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
