At 22:12 22.03.2002 +0800, Stas Bekman wrote:
I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to have the pdf and src gzipped, it seems that most browsers cannot handle properly gzip attachement and mess things up. On the other hand without gzip the size is bigger. So does anybody think that we should keep things gzipped?
Ok, I know, I'm new here, but I'll give my point of view:
Thanks for chiming in, Per Einar :)
Personally, I think the PDF version shouldn't be gzipped, as it clearly creates problems: the point of a PDF version is to have something that looks great, has all the information in one file, is nicely printable, but is also viewable from a web browser. People don't care whether it takes a minute or two more to download it (depending on the connection of course.. it might be a second or two), but they do care if they find out they can't open it once they have downloaded it.
that's what I was thinking :) As I was annoyed myself for not being able to open it right away with mozilla.
As for the src, that's not as important, as most people won't be downloading that anyway. I think that one should remain gzipped.
But then to be consistent shouldn't we have this uncompressed to? The source files are much smaller than pdfs, e.g.:
dst_html/docs/1.0/guide/strategy.pdf 71509 dst_html/docs/1.0/guide/strategy.pod 48392
compressed: dst_html/docs/1.0/guide/strategy.pdf.gz 55516 dst_html/docs/1.0/guide/strategy.pod.gz 17627
pdf is already quite compressed.
On the other hand I doubt people will download source at all, other than sending patches :)
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