[Maf] 0.6.3 release

[Christopher Ottley]

tiger michael wrote:

>Not sure if this was the case for the previous
>versions, but I just tried this new release with my
>FF1.5 and found that when saving (or opening) the
>"mht" format, it took a huge peak memory usage while
>there was no such problem for the "maf" format. Is
>this an implication that "maf" format is more
>memory-efficient?
>  
>

The implementation of the MHT format by MAF is currently in Javascript 
and locally (not globally) optimized. I haven't found the the time to do 
global optimization on it as yet. The memory spike occurs because MAF 
keeps entire set of MIME blocks in memory and writes out each block at a 
time instead of streaming as each block is encoded or decoded. The XPCOM 
ZipWriter component currently does an efficient copy of zip entries and 
compression without taking up much memory, so even with the compression 
overhead, it's faster and smaller.

>Thanks for the great job and I now have a version
>compatible with my FF1.5.
>

Sure. :).


>I haven't really identified
>any bug using it yet. But just as a suggestion, if
>some toolbar/menubar icons can be added to this
>package, it would be even wonderful.
>  
>

I'm working on some GUI enhancements that would be put in MenuMAF. 
Toolbar support is one of the planned things. Full time job deadlines 
are eating into my open source time though. :(.

I've added yet another communication resource - A support forum. You can 
find it at http://www.createforum.com/phpbb/maf.html

Regards,
Christopher.