- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:44:58 +0600
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:32:55 +0600, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: >> It's not only about printing-while-downloading. It's about the ability >> to print an arbitrarily long document without consuming infinite memory >> for DOM. > What kind of use is this about? Is this about XHTML-Print-type stuff or > about Prince-type high-end formatting? CSS already allows page number > references, which means that the formatter has to paginate the whole > document in order to make forward reference by page number. > > I have never seen the source of a print-only CSS formatter, but I > imagine an optimized implementation could optimize away the DOM but > would still have to keep the entire CSS frame tree in memory (at least > when there's generated content that depends on later page numbers). TeX uses repeated passes over a long document to handle cross-references properly using limited memory. It would be useful if HTML allowed something like that. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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