On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Jewett, Jim J wrote:
> Best for viewers starting when? Does the recently
> released 1.4 viewer handle it, or do they need a
> beta from somewhere?
They need 1.5 or the cvs version which has not yet been released.
> Should this become the default for new desktop
> releases, on the assumption that most people will
> get a new viewer at the same time?
>
> Is there any disadvantage to this, other than
> backwards compatibility?
Bookmarks in the vicinity of the seam can be off by up to a screen at the
moment if font has been changed. This should be fixed eventually, I
suppose.
There is a slight slowdown in rendering times, I suppose (it doesn't
actually render fragments other than the current one, but it does spend a
bit of time reading in their sizes for scrollbar-estimation purpose).
> > --fragments=link : Behaves as before, no
> > continuation marker, and "Click here markers"
>
> Backwards compatible = a safe default?
It is a safe default, but if people update their viewer while updating
their desktop, it shouldn't be needed.
> > --fragments=both : Has "click here" markers, and
> > continuation bit. This means that the viewer will
> > show the continuation markers, but also show
> > the next fragment.
>
> But if this is also backwards compatible, it is probably
> a better default than fragments=link. Still not as good
> as fragments=seamless, if that is safe.
It is backwards compatible with everything as far as I know, EXCEPT the
old unpluck code that I found in PluckerDocs.py. I don't know if anybody
uses that old code for anything, and anyway they would presumably have
the new PluckerDocs.py if they were using the new PluckerDocs.py to
generate continuation markers. :-)
The only thing I am not 100% certain of is that perhaps the PocketPC
viewer assumes the byte used for the marker is zero. I don't see why it
would, but who knows? (I know the Zaurus viewer makes no such assumption
because the developer of the Zaurus viewer was the source for the idea of
this continuation marker.)
Alex
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