- From: Henrik Andersson <henke@henke37.cjb.net>
- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:29:22 +0200
- To: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>, Joey Bradshaw <joey_bradshaw@strandedpirate.com>, www-style@w3.org
Previous discussions have shown that combining aliasing/shorthand with traditional compressions do give savings of a few %. But I duno if it is worth it. François REMY skriver: > Hi, > > While the idea could look interesting at first glance, it is not - in > practice - worth deploying. > > The reason for this is that, after application of the DEFLATE algorithm > (which every web server is using to transmit text files nowadays) the > saving will be close to zero, because this is already how DEFLATE works. > There’s basically no need to integrate a compression algorithm in CSS > because its redundency is already handled correctly by the existing > compression algorithms. > > I hope this helps, > François
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