Greg Hellings wrote: > It remains a fact that a large portion of the world does not have > high-bandwidth download options nor does it have modern computers. So > we're still trying to accommodate people who are on POTS or slower > systems with possibly tiny hard drives in remote areas of the world (a > supposedly still significant portion of the clients of SWORD are in > this scenario). >
Amen! Think of the One Laptop Per Child XO (toy) computers. And have mercy on people like me, who pay for Internet traffic by the megabyte. Compression is not a significant drag on high-powered computers with broadband connections (and, in fact, normally helps), but it is a BIG advantage in distribution of software and documents in my part of the world (in a nation with limited infrastructure, on an island a LONG way from most of you). Michael in Papua New Guinea _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
