I have a question regarding a picture heavy web site and whether any of your programs allows for quick download time of such a website without loosing the picture quality. Any thoughts you have would be useful.
Posted - Sep 08 2002 : 05:46:45
Protecting the images and providing faster downloads is a catch 22. If you want to protect them you need to accept the fact that as they download they must be decrypted, because they are stored on the server/site in encrypted form. However the extra time that this takes is very little. What can be deceiving to many is that when revisiting an image, it can download very fast. This is because it is actually in your browser cache and doesn't need downloading all over again.
Also, although normal images appear to download much faster than those in our applets, it is mostly an illusion because with normal images, they partially load and already become visible on the screen, even though their download is not complete. With out applets they are being decrypted as they download and when fully downloaded appear in a flash. If you compare the finished download times they will not be very different.
It may be interesting to note that our applets are optimized for the job that they do, which has always set them apart from the many imitations that appeared after our first release.
Protection vs download time
Posted - Sep 08 2002 : 05:00:47
