1. A collaborative computer hardware system configured for optimal page sharing, the system comprising: a collaborative peer hardware device configured to: determine a presentation sequence of application pages of a collaborative application by an off-line pass through of content of the collaborative application; select an application page based on the determined presentation sequence; prior to transmitting said selected application page to collaborative peers, compress said selected application page by partitioning said selected application page into a set of regions; for each region, selecting a particular compression technique from among multiple compression techniques based upon content disposed in said each region; and, compressing said each region using said particular compression technique; repeat the compression steps performed for the selected application page for all other application pages; and delta encode page to page transitions based on the determined presentation sequence.