- From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 11:51:04 +0100 (MET)
- To: gh@748pku.pku.edu.cn (Gao Hong)
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
> Alexei Novikov wrote: > >As you have mentioned connection can be very slow, but to my mind the > >main problem arrises when you are loading images ( that are already > >sensibly compressed ), but not downloading text that is much smaller in > >size and occupies probably 30 % or less. > > Actually the graphic and audio file is not the main traffic on the > low speed network. When the transfer rate is very slow, no one > dare to get those files. The main traffic on such net is the text > files(include HTML files of course) and the compress rate for the > text file is almost 70%, especially those file with JAVASCRIPT. This is very true, but... > Based on such thought, I think the compression over the text(html) > file is neccesary and feasible. ... > > But my idea about compression is not the traditional ones that the > compressed file can only be expanded after the file transfer process > is completed. To make the reader feel no difference when reading > the compressed file, the expanding process must be able to output > the expanded information little by little so that in the transfer this is what "compressing" modems do. Which might render an additional compression layer useless. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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