Hi,
Has anyone considered a pure Javascript ZIM file reader and Wikipedia
reader?
I have made a small start, writing some hack code to open a ZIM file and
it gets to the point of needing to uncompress a cluster. A start has
been made on the needed XZ decompress code but it's not done yet.
If practical then this could provide a portable offline reader that
could suit any device with a modern web browser, and provide a reader
for Android tablets, and Firefox OS, etc. Perhaps even node.js servers.
If someone has already tried this and found the performance to be too
poor then please let me know?
Btw: has adding thumbnail image support to the ZIM file format been
considered? This would be very handy for a ZIM file selector in a
tablet or phone UI.
Regards
Douglas Crosher