- From: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:28:35 +0200
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Jose Fandos <iaminlondon at gmail.com> wrote: > Er... sure. It is not as convenient for certain web apps when compared to > desktop apps. With this supported, the gap get's reduced. Adding support for tar (and all of its variations) involves adding extra code, testing, etc. to browsers. This is sometimes called bloat, and can be painful for browsers that work on mobile devices. Things aren't "free", especially not duplicative features. I'm quite happy to demand that web sites include code for generating Zip files. http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT V. General Format of a .ZIP file the zip format is fairly streaming friendly, the directory is at the end of the file. And if you're actually generating a file which has so many records that you can't remember all of them, you're probably trying to attack my user agent, so I'm quite happy that you'd fail.
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