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Originally Posted by jhowell
With Karamel each screen full of content is rendered by the servers at Amazon and delivered to the browser as a jpeg image.
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I have a correction to the above statement based on further research. For karamel the servers do not deliver pages to the browser as JPEG images.
Instead they send JSON encoded drawing instructions for building fixed layout page images. The KCR JavaScript program running in the browser uses those instructions to produce the actual image.
Conceptually it is a lot like converting the book to PDF at the server.