David A Roberts

Wow, @brewsterkahle commenting on one of my issues :D The problem I ran into was browsers still not supporting JPEG2000 for some inexplicable reason, so I guess the best strategy...

@rht I already mirrored a small subset of Gutenberg a little while ago (check the irc logs), so mirroring the rest is definitely on my radar. Part of the reason...

@brewsterkahle I guess a combination of: 1. low quality jpeg versions (thumbnails) 2. aggressive preloading and rendering of high quality jpeg2k where the user is shown 1 while waiting for...

> This is one of the things we have to solve in a distributed web-- having > sophisticated website specific client side javascript to be things like > mini-db's and...

> Yeah, mobile is an interesting question. not sure, i need to talk to people at Mozilla + Chrome about this-- stunted mobile browsers are such a pain :( Thanks,...

[BPG](http://bellard.org/bpg/) could be another option: the JS decoder for BPG seems noticeably faster than the JP2 ones, and it also seems to have slightly better image quality for similar files...

@RichardLitt I'm trying to experiment with BPG ([here](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmR96pGKBRrsxfBddEnbNsTfK1aRin7pFYnwpCsRybBA6p/?/ipfs/QmSzfEmHqcuQZUKDD7mgrwrSXv6Heze5hrhXyaqWL42TSN/)) but I keep getting `Cannot enlarge memory arrays` errors. I've tried recompiling `bpgdec.js` with emscripten's `-s ALLOW_MEMORY_GROWTH=1` flag, but that's also erroring...

I've created a new issue (ipfs/apps#2) to discuss getting BookReader working on IPFS. I'll leave this issue open to discuss actually getting scanned books mirrored to IPFS (in a format...

That's also a possibility, but more time consuming and inflexible On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:29 rht [email protected] wrote: > In this case, why does the xml -> html have...

@DataWraith Just had a look at the gozim [demo](http://scaleway.nobugware.com/zim/A/Wikipedia.html), looks really cool. In the short-term, this does seem like the best option (apologies for my terse reply earlier @rht :)....