On Sat, Jun 19, 2004, Alexander R. Pruss wrote:
> headerLength is used so we can extend this later to include other data,
> such as RGB value of highlight, and anything else one might fancy.

[..]

> dataLength is also nice for the same reason.  For all we know, there might
> be reason to store other stuff in the same record eventually, and it might
> go after the data.

I have some disagreements about this, but we are talking about 4
bytes of extra data, so it's not much to "fight" about ;-)

> I am still not sure we really need the distinction between bookmarks and
> annotations. 
[...]
> I wouldn't worry about the 6 bytes per entry very much myself.

Using separate records are not so much for saving space, but to be
able to identify them. How do you know if a record contains a bookmark
or an annotation for the whole page?

/Mike

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