What is linearization?
A. Linearization is the process of preparing a document for “byte-serving”. Byte-serving permits individual pages to be downloaded by performing byte range requests to the web server. The benefit is best illustrated when an extremely large PDF document is downloaded. Instead of waiting for the entire document to stream down to the browser, byte-serving allows for the first page (or any desired page) to load almost instantaneously. For byte-serving to work, both the web browser and the web server must support HTTP 1.1 Byte Range requests. Most modern browsers (e.g. IE 4.x and higher and Netscape 4.x and higher) and servers (e.g. IIS 4.x and higher) support this functionality. There are PERL scripts available on the Internet for those web servers that do not support byte range requests.
Related Questions
- However, linearization may result in steeper IMD slopes or a nonlinear characteristic curve versus RF input. How shall we interpret the Rx-Link10-GHz SFDR metric of 133.5 dB.Hz^2/3?
- What is the difference between the replication method and the Taylor series linearization method?
- What is a custom linearization scheme?
