[sword-devel] File Compression (Was: Making Import Easier)

[Kahunapule Michael Johnson]

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