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Originally Posted by Tuna
Let me be clear that I would never suggest storing rendered versions - that was a misunderstanding on kovid's part. My point was that files can be pre-parsed and indexed to support efficient rendering. At the base level, indexing can involve both flattening the parse tree (eliminating those pesky CSS selectors) and providing efficient search spaces for locating document parts.
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You are proposing creating an indexed version with flattened CSS (in other words a version that is rendered to some sort of binary format), not a pixel rendering perhaps, but still a rendered version and it will suffer from the same drawbacks. the drawbacks being the need to re-render everytie anything changes.