Richard MacLemale wrote:
> Enter XML. Instead of sending a 700K MetaCard stack, the program now sends
> a 20K XML file. What I did was to essentially write each card as an xml
> entry into an xml file, then send the file. On downloading a theme,
> MetaCard then makes a copy of an empty template stack, then parses the data
> into the stack.
....
> Our district IS folks were VERY happy to see the size of the files we're
> sending go from 700K down to 20K!
It's funny how customer perceptions work like that. Unless I'm
misunderstanding something, instead of sending one large file you're sending
several small ones which total to rougly the same size, no?
Given the size of the extra ASCII XML tags vs. MC's binary data structures,
my hunch is you could send a series of one-card stacks (using "go...in this
window") for the same effect, and possibly trim another few k off of the
aggregate data size (or am I underestimating the overhead of the stack
object?).
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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