... The following is a snippet from the message I recently posted to the e-book community group. My proposed TPM solution for the OpenReader reference...
< It would also permit the design and ... Alas, the publishers will take TPM seriously. Far better to encourage a standardized version rather than just have a...
Thanks for this, Lee. It makes a whole lot of sense to me, as does David's comment; however, open source or not, I assume it would have to be modular to ...
Everyone, It is important the OpenReader Format meet international standards. After all, if the format is intended to be universal, it must truly be ...
Everyone, Following are two replies to my inquiry on the public list XML-DEV regarding the internationalization of URIs. Both mentioned "IRI", International...
... Not that it matters, but it's already a full-fledged RFC. See RFC 2026, which describes the IETF standardization process. An RFC may be "informational",...
For those interested, the OpenReader Consortium has redone its web site. The old site was woefully inadequate, both in layout/design and in its content. (Yes,...
I have completed a very preliminary, and patently incomplete, design document for the OpenReader reference implementation (Orca). It is now available at ...
I am not snipping any portion of Mr. Janssen's reply, so that individuals in other forums where this message was not posted can have the full reply. ... Well,...
[posted to OR-Format and OR-Devel groups.] ... In essence, what makes the OpenReader Format is not the encapsulation method, but the "creamy filling." In terms...
... How do you get this? Every Web client and server has to implement it. Every MIME toolkit has it. What bogus reference are you getting this bit of...
... Well, I think we all know that binaries can be encoded (e.g. mimencoded) into a MIME format (otherwise how can we email binaries to our friends?), but when...
... Yes, I definitely was not very precise in communication there, particularly in that "8-bit" as I used it is ambiguous. Let me restate what I wrote: the...
... Jon, I've answered these questions already at least 3 times in this forum. I'm not sure what good repeating the answers does if you continue to ignore...
... I apologize. There's several new people on these groups, and repeating this information will be useful. I'd rather you to mention it than me since you are...
Hi, ... This may have been covered earlier, but I'm curious as to what kind of catalog or index would be used in a multipart MIME file to speed access to the...
Michael Day
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Nov 8, 2005 7:26 am
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... Bad assumption! (a logical one, but still wrong) Mac OS X has it's own 2D graphic subsystem called Quartz, which is based on the PDF imaging model. (for...
... A few months ago we did touch upon the points you bring up. We even talked about other archive formats, such as the venerable 'tar'. The first question I...
... How important is memory usage? How important is performance? Without an index, document loading speed will increase exponentially as the size of the...
... See http://xml.openoffice.org/package.html. I note in the referenced document that there is no mention of using MIME with "8bit" or "binary" transfer...
... Oops, I should have been more precise in framing my original question. I meant to say (and I assumed from the context it meant this): "Assuming a user...
... Sure. Building that index will take time - both CPU and disk, since the entire file will have to be read BYTE BY BYTE! That means that the larger the...
[Just changed the Subject: title to reflect that this thread has evolved into comparing MIME with ZIP.] ... This is a very good point. ... Interesting. So if...
... As Mr. Janssen pointed out, the place to start in researching MTHML is RFC 2045 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt). It is interesting to note that in...
... At Brady Duga's suggestion I downloaded the eBook Publisher from eBook Technologies, and used that to create what is purportedly an Open EBook File Format...
Another important issue when we talk about how to encapsulate one or more OpenReader Publications (note that we will allow multiple ORPs in a single ...
... For indexing parts, I wouldn't do it that way. Assuming a MIME multipart format, I'd just add a Content-Length header to each part, so that you could use...
... Some will see only what they want to see... Just for starters, each part can be explicitly tagged with information about languages, character sets,...
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