Re: FYI: gzip/zip in the browsers...

> On 22 Dec 2015, at 15:46, Nick Ruffilo <nickruffilo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This seems an easy win for browsers and I believe they already have gzip
> functionality directly in the browsers.  I know server-side it's pretty
> standard practice to use gzip to deflate outgoing text to save on bandwidth
> (at the cost of processing) which means the browser is reading the
> compressed data.

That is correct. Actually, a gzipped version of SVG is even 'officially' part of the standard, afaik…

Ivan


> 
> -Nick
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote:
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>> On 22/12/2015 03:28 , Ivan Herman wrote:
>>> There are some discussions on having natively zip-like facilities
>>> in the browser:
>>> 
>>> http://discourse.wicg.io/t/need-for-gzip-deflate-api/1237
>>> http://discourse.wicg.io/t/a-zip-api-in-the-browser/14
>>> 
>>> I have no idea whether there is more than just discussions at this
>>> point, though.
>> 
>> The idea has been doing the rounds for a while; AFAIK it's still
>> mostly just an idea (though one that would be very useful). In the
>> interim, there are pure-JS options that will get the job done (to my
>> knowledge none that's really great, but workable).
>> 
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