Re: More Web Printing News

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (frystyk@w3.org)
Mon, 07 Oct 1996 14:08:23 -0400


Chris Lilley writes:

> In other words it's a hierarchical multiresolution format; it's also
> tiled, so the browser can request only the tiles it needs when people zoom.
>
> How that works with proxy caches, I'm not entirely sure.

I know Andy Mutz has been looking into byte range requests for handling
this.
What I am interesting in is whether this can be used while downloading
fonts and other compound things as well, or if we need more semantics.

Henrik

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