The dynaview, as I understand it, prevents portion of the page to which you have not yet scrolled from rendering. This appeared to work, as you could tell because when you paged down there would be a pause before the page became visible. But it didn't seem to help performance. The dynaview version is still online, btw.
For that matter, I found the epub sample to be fairly slow, and it's only an excerpt from the book. It would have been interesting to see what the entire book was like, but I was unwilling to sign up for an account to purchase a public domain book that I've already read. As an actual user of ebooks, I'm not sure the epub fulfils users needs. The epub is impressive, but probably not worth the overhead. I regularly read a huge book on TW without difficulty. What the world really needs is a format with some sort of block-chain registry built in so that you can share and exchange commercial ebooks just like you can real books. In any event, people don't avoid reading because they need better formatting, people avoid reading because they're doing other things. And reading isn't even cheaper. A subscription to netflix will costs you less than a subscription to Kindle unlimited! You can binge watch the entire HP series in a single day, and save weeks of reading! \s Thanks! On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 1:30:20 AM UTC-7, TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > > Mark S. wrote: >> >> I probably won't be pursuing the dynaview option, since that didn't seem >> to improve performance. >> >> >> As a reminder, the NW file can be found at: >> >> >> https://marxsal.github.io/various/notowritey.html >> > > > Ciao Mark > > Regarding performance and Dynaview---looking at the eBook version of > TW---seems to indicate its optimal for fully prepped, pre-ordered Tiddlers. > I don't fully understand how it works yet, especially its "chunkology". > Xavier > helpfully commented this though ... > > Xavier wrote: >> >> Hi TT, >> >> In order to fulfil some of the user interface requirements, like keeping >> track of the current reading location or creating annotations anywhere >> inside the text, Jeremy introduced Dynaview, then Dynannotate. In the >> context of ePub reading, Dynaview's aim is to reveal on demand the little >> chunks that have been produced at ePub parse time, along with their >> possible annotations. Once you have this collection of chunks (aka >> tiddlers), the performance, while still subject to optimisation, is not >> much of a worry: these chunks are not tangled nor even weaved together >> through any complex cross-references system. At the time Dynaview comes >> into play, the list of chunks is already sorted, waiting to be displayed at >> reading pace. That's because ePub is a much poorer and linear format than >> TiddlyWiki of course. Fortunately, what can do more, can do less. >> >> By the way, being able to split any ePub into chunks is probably the >> hardest part of the project. Not only because choosing the chunks limits >> can be hard, but also because styles are often used very loosely by >> publishers : for instance, you may find paragraphs that are expressed as >> <span >> style="font-size: 11pt;display: block;text-indent: 0pt;">The first >> paragraph of a section, as you have to guess.</span> because the WYSIWYG >> tools that helped producing the ePub are generally misleading. I spare you >> the table and images issues :-) >> >> Cheers, >> -- Xavier Cazin >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 6:43 PM TiddlyTweeter <tiddly...@assays.tv> >> wrote: >> >>> Xavier >>> >>> There is interest in it growing. >>> >>> I think the very good PERFORMANCE aspect is particularly interesting >>> since eBooks are large documents. >>> >>> Over in GG we did some tests with Dynaview but still hitting issues >>> which the eBook version does not have. I think better understanding the >>> eBook edition of TW will help a lot. >>> >>> Fingers crossed x >>> >>> Best wishes >>> TT >>> >>> Xavier wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Not yet ready because of some pressing redesign, but it will eventually >>>> be released as a normal plugin >>>> >>> -- >>> >> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/646b8812-bacf-4b9b-a4a2-a7075b813eado%40googlegroups.com.
