On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Uwe Baumbach U.Baumbach@web.de wrote:

Hi there,

it seems that nobody can help?

So:

Does anybody know someone in- or outside Celartem who cares about that?

I'm not sure if we have a good idea of the use case for a DjVu viewer applet; individual pages are thumbnailed as JPEGs for in-browser viewing already; while this isn't an efficient way to read a whole document, it handles the common case of "look at this page of this document" with no need for additional tools.

Can you go into a little more detail on what an applet viewer might be used for? This would presumably require downloading the entire DjVu file (and then potentially doing it again next time you go back to the page). I also need to warn that Java applets are not so popular these days; in addition to classic problems with slow load time, some browsers now default to disabling the Java plugin by default for security reasons.

So we might want to think about what it's intended to accomplish, how it's meant to be used, and then start thinking about whether a Java applet is a good way to accomplish it.

-- brion