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1. The user may not be able or may not want to download that large files on the mobile phone. | 1. The user may not be able or may not want to download that large files on the mobile phone. | ||
2. It is pretty complex to support such a feature in an app. (i.p. on multiple platforms) This may mean that | : My opinon (1) splited versions of each content should be alway provided (2) We should find a solution if the file system where files are saved is not able to deal with big file to detect it automaticaly (3) Version for mobile should be provided beside the other ones (4) reader/kiwix should be able to know if he needs a version for mobile or not (5) download per default an adequat version (splited or not, mobile version or not). [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 19:27, 31 August 2011 (CEST) | ||
2. It is pretty complex to support such a feature in an app. (i.p. on multiple platforms) This may mean that apps just don't support this feature and let it up to the user to download the | |||
files. If there are no split files available, which are pretty simple to install (connect mobile via usb, extract archive (or copy separate files) to mobile), many potential users won't be able | files. If there are no split files available, which are pretty simple to install (connect mobile via usb, extract archive (or copy separate files) to mobile), many potential users won't be able | ||
to use the zim file. For this scenario having separate download is better, because this would allow downloading on the mobile phone as well (without app support), while the zip-file could normally not be downloaded (as larger than 2 (or 4) GB. | to use the zim file. For this scenario having separate download is better, because this would allow downloading on the mobile phone as well (without app support), while the zip-file could normally not be downloaded (as larger than 2 (or 4) GB. | ||
--[[User:Cip|Cip]] 18:59, 31 August 2011 (CEST) | |||
- | : Separate download should always be possible. Detecting a mobile device is easy... in fact what matters is the screen resolution (we could introduce a meta-tag with something like minresolution inside). Detecting the nature of the filesystem should be also possible... although I do not know how? An idea? [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 19:27, 31 August 2011 (CEST) | ||