On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 09:41 +0100, Felix Röthenbacher wrote: > Josias Thoeny wrote: > >> > >> .... > > > > > > Hi Jonathan > > > > Good to see you back. > > The drawback of the patch is that the browser now has to download the > > complete pdf before it can display something. For large pdfs and slow > > connections this can be annoying. > > Furthermore, the "resume interrupted download" option of download > > managers does not work anymore for pdfs. > > Does this only apply to pdf's or to all binary downloads?
The patch of the resource.xmap and resource-shared.xmap affects only pdfs. Other binary files should be fine. > > > Whether the pdf documents have fast web-view enabled or not should not > > make any difference. > > Actually, if the pdf's are not prepared for page-at-a-time downloading > (fast web-view in acrobat 6.x), they will not appear more quickly > in the reader. I think it makes a difference wether the documents are > prepared for fast web-view or not. Or am I mis-understanding something? > (By the way, for PDF's smaller than 250k byte serving does not apply > on a fast connection, but on a slow modem connection, pdf's are always > byte-served (if they are prepared for this)). What I wanted to say is that since the patch to Lenya has been applied, the server will always respond with Accept-Ranges: none to any PDF request handled in the above-mentioned sitemaps, thus the PDF plugin won't try to do "fast web-view", independent of the document. Sorry if I was not clear. Josias > > - Felix > > > > > - Josias > > > > > >>Jon > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
