On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@google.com> > wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@google.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Robert, Jonathan, are you willing to support this in Firefox? >>>> >>> >>> I'm not sure what exactly your proposal is. As I understand it, you're >>> proposing to allow each SVG document to be optionally, independently >>> compressed via zlib. >>> >> >> I was thinking gzip instead of zlib, since gzip-compressed svg is in >> common use as sgvz. >> >> >>> How does the UA distinguish compressed documents from not-compressed >>> documents? >>> >> >> If the data stream starts with 0x1f 0x8b (gzip signature), then process >> as svgz, otherwise process as svg. >> > > That sounds reasonable. > > The gzip header contains the uncompressed data size. > Great point. Thanks Rob. The *last* four bytes of the gzip-compressed data is the uncompressed size. Doesn't that mean concerns about knowing the uncompressed size are already > addressed? > I hope so. Sairus, Leonard, does that address your concerns? Rob >
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