George Whiffen wrote: > > 1. My biggest concern is the slowest user i.e. at the end of a modem > on the other side of the planet. I thought they would almost certainly > have modem compression so doing our own compression doesn't > really help them at all i.e. actual download speeds stay the same, it's > just we/they do the work rather than the modems. >
Have you tried it? > In summary, I can't agree more that all pages should be compressed, > but don't feel it should be our job. Maybe I'm wrong and this is another > case of the poor old application developer having to do all the ***** work, > just because the rest of the computing industry is too busy counting its > profits to do its own job properly ;). Apache isn't making any profits directly from its technology, but there is a mod_gzip module for Apache. Why is it so hard to put in *one line* of code (probably in an include file?) Why do you consider this "all the **** work"? You probably spend more time fiddling with TABLE CELLPADDING than you would on putting this line in one place, but you seem to think it's *another burden*. I look at it the other way - I love having more things under my control, and regardless of whether a webserver has configured outgoing compression or not, I can control it. > > > What's everyone else think? > See above. :) Michael Kimsal http://www.logicreate.com 734-480-9961 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
