On 26 Feb 2009, Rob Kendrick <r...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote: [snip]
> On this subject, are there a significant number of people still on > dial-up? In fact, I'm using wireless 'broadband', which achieves about 50KB/sec, but since its tariff is traffic based, I try to avoid 'large' downloads. > Do I need to write some sort of incremental upgrade downloader tool if > downloading 2MB is a chore for people? I've been thinking about this > for a while. The current download zipfile is 2492KB, whereas its zipped !RunImage is 1636KB. Assuming that nothing else has changed, an incremental upgrade would save about one third of the download time/size (unless there is a way of patching the !RunImage file). This would be helpful, but not as large a difference as might be expected. Tony
