On Thursday, December 22, 2011 06:25:42 a wrote: > Why are you ignoring the statement about 7z having the same accessibility > level as rar? Rar files are not rare and users who can open rar files (on > Windows usually with WinRAR or 7zip) can also open 7z files.
But not without installing 3rd party software. Windows can handle zip files out of the box. It can't handle the others. rar would have exactly the same problem as 7z files (though from what I've see rar files are much more commonly used). We _could_ use a file format other than zip, but then we'd be requiring that the user download a 3rd party app just to be able to open the file, which is _not_ the case with zip. - Jonathan M Davis