On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:04 PM, ashok malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>wrote: > Hi Jeni: > A couple of quick comments: > > 1. MHTML is a packaging format. Why is it not suitable? Need to say > something about it. > There's no standard for it, AFAICT. > 2. ZIP has lossless compression. That's part of its popularity. Can we do > compression? > Yes, either at the transport layer over the entire package or over the individual item level. I think it'll be up to content-type aware tools to figure out which they're going to do by default early-on in the lifetime of the format. > 3. Would it be possible to create a streamable version of ZIP? > Perhaps, and this was discussed at length, but it has considerable downsides and still requires extra metadata that needs an additional standard (mimetype, e.g.). > Best, Ashok > > > On 4/6/2014 5:25 PM, Jeni Tennison wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I’ve worked up a proper spec for Packaging on the Web, speccing both a >> format (application/package) and a link relation (rel=package) and >> providing some detailed scenarios and examples. >> >> It’s at: http://w3ctag.github.io/packaging-on-the-web/ >> >> Feedback greatly appreciated. In particular, Yehuda, you said you’d >> review? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jeni >> -- >> Jeni Tennison >> http://www.jenitennison.com/ >> >> > >
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