Re: Compressed SVG? (and a couple of announcements)

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. Doesn't that mean
concerns about knowing the uncompressed size are already addressed?

Rob
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