Re: Any plan for a Zlib API ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Thanks Brendan, I have also noticed node.js 0.6+ implemented a Zlib native module http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.0/api/zlib.html Pipe oriented objects a part, the concept of having callbacks to eventually put the task in the background is not that bad too I still think convenience Methods http://nod

Re: Any plan for a Zlib API ?

2012-01-31 Thread Brendan Eich
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: it's great to have other developers with me but I wonder if anyone would be so kind to bring this at next TC39 meeting too, thanks I'll see what I can do. I agree that app-level compression makes sense given both bandwidth x latency network constraints, and local stora

Re: Any plan for a Zlib API ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
just an UP for this topic ... anyone with other thoughts ? cheers On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Andrea Giammarchi < andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote: > any sort of real time sharing editing/documentation document even to go > (3G) > > plus I want to shrink those bloody 50Mb of Web SQL or 5M

Re: Any plan for a Zlib API ?

2012-01-31 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
it's great to have other developers with me but I wonder if anyone would be so kind to bring this at next TC39 meeting too, thanks ___ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss

Re: Any plan for a Zlib API ?

2012-01-31 Thread David Foley
Would work great with regard to the HTML 5 File API and have a reliable means to present an archives contents to users, or otherwise manipulate File data IMO... I don't want to scupper the intent, but maybe this is orthogonal to the spec. David Foley | Senior Software Architect +353 87 667 450

Re: Any plan for a Zlib API ?

2012-01-30 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
any sort of real time sharing editing/documentation document even to go (3G) plus I want to shrink those bloody 50Mb of Web SQL or 5Mb of localStorage limit ... 5Mb ain't nothing for data, we all know that, neither are 50, while native apps, talking about mobile, get as much as they want with a si

Re: Any plan for a Zlib API ?

2012-01-30 Thread Wes Garland
Why wouldn't you just fix this at the HTTP level with Content-Transfer-Encoding negotiation of some sort? Out of curiosity, what are you sending to the server that that requires additional compression? Remember that zlib is not useful on PNG, JPEG, etc content. Wes -- Wesley W. Garland Directo

Any plan for a Zlib API ?

2012-01-30 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
it's quite common to send a consistent amount of data in certain applications and the FORM does not scale here while an Ajax POST or an upload via binary gripped data would be handy. It would also be handy to store a bit more data in localStorage, Web SQL ( for those that won't drop it ) and/or In