- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:13:10 -0500
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash at ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > Ideally I guess then, the browsers would support .tar.gz files as these give much better compression than .zip. ZIP and gzip give comparable compression, in my experience. I just applied both to a random 3.5M text file lying around in /tmp, and got exactly 170K for both. bzip2, 7-Zip, and xz tend to give better compression.
Received on Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:13:10 UTC