If W3C were to take this on, it would probably belong in Sysapps. Perhaps part of their phase two efforts?
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> On Nov 15, 2013, at 7:09 AM, "Chase Douglas" <chase@newrelic.com> wrote:
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> So how can we get the ball rolling on such an addition?
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>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Ilya Grigorik <igrigorik@google.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Chase Douglas <chase@newrelic.com> wrote:
>>> So you're proposing a different spec and api that would simply compress data like:
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>>> var zipped = window.compress('Please compress this string!');
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>>> And zipped would be a Blob? That would definitely be handy if we could get such a thing.
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>> Perhaps not that exact API, but the same end result, yes. :-)
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>> This would benefit XHR and WebSocket, give us ability to compress data to store locally (e.g. for offline use), and more..
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