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

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.

-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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