"Matt Sergeant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote:
>
> > just beware that not all browsers that claim to accept gzip compression
> > actually do...
>
> No its the other way around. Not all browsers that can accept gzip send
> out Accept-Encoding: gzip. Notably early versions of IE4.
Right, and in response to Nigel's assumtion:
> ...I'm after something that zips on the server and
> decompresses transparently in Javascript across all browsers.
I believe you'd find that a lot more browsers will already transparently
decompress your server-gzipped content for you, than you will
JavaScript-enabled browsers that will successfully decompress the content
for you.
Another reason being that you can *detect* Accept-Encoding: gzip in a
browser's request headers (and even workaround the IE versions that dont
send this by looking at their USER_AGENT headers) and know beforehand
whether gzipped content can be decoded by that browser or not, while there
are no such early-warning systems to assure you that Javascript will be
enabled. So, since most modern browsers *already* decompress gzip on the
fly, why would you want to add all the necessary JS code (to the
content-size) and then ask the JavaScript interpreter to do what the browser
already knows how to do?
-dave
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