[google-appengine] Re: Data compression behavior on static files is inconsistent

2011-04-28 Thread DFB
Hello Noah, Thanks for your response. It makes sense, as far as the images are concerned. But why do the .js files not get compressed consistently? I noticed that sometimes the same file, in the same browser, is downloaded in the compressed format and at other times it doesn't. For example the IS

[google-appengine] Re: Data compression behavior on static files is inconsistent

2011-04-27 Thread Noah McIlraith
I'm guessing images being always uncompressed is intentional, as their data is already compressed and attempting to re-compress it won't yield much of an improvement yet requires that the client decompress it. This sort of thing matters more on weaker devices such as mobile phones. -- You rece