[FileAPI] Revisiting Deflate/Compression

2013-07-13 Thread Charles Pritchard
We've had a few conversations pop up about exposing deflate/inflate to the webapps environment. Years of them (more recently May 2013). Packaging a zip file is very simple in JS, it's just the inflate/deflate code that's a trudge. We all know the benefits of compressing JSON and XML over the p

Re: [FileAPI] Revisiting Deflate/Compression

2013-07-15 Thread pira...@gmail.com
I agree, the available libraries that currently exists not only are slow compared to native code (I don't know of anyone that use the trick used on the demos scene of canvas.getasbytestring() ) and to speed up things they use webworkers, so they are difficult to use from file:// scheme pages. 2013