- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:09:26 +0000
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, www-font@w3.org
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > As for actual use, it's used everywhere. Any intelligent server owner > has it turned on if they value their bandwidth, not least because it's > just so damned *easy* to do. It's usually configured only for certain file types, though, to avoid wasting CPU cycles and to avoid bugs in old browsers. Ubuntu's Apache seems to be configured to only deflate text/html, text/xml, and text/plain by default, for instance. However, yeah, it's generally one line in a configuration file. It's rule 4 in Souders' High Performance Web Sites. Not everyone bothers enabling it, however, so I guess that's a minus compared to mandatory in-font compression. Maybe someone should go poke web server authors/distributors to make compression default for more file types . . .
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