On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:06:02PM +0100, toad wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:50:01AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:19:13AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:45:38AM -0700, Mr.Bad wrote:
> > > > For small files, like plain text and HTML, you really don't get much
> > > > bang for your buck by compressing them, at least w/r/t on-the-wire
> > > > transfer time.
> > >
> > > Why are text and HTML necessarily small? People might want to insert
> > > books, HOWTOs etc as well as web pages.
> >
> > And if they did they'd be silly not to compress them first.
> They might want them browseable. If we have an optional metadata header a la
> HTTP's Transfer-Encoding, they can be compressed and browseable.
Well, that's entirely reasonable. Netscape and lynx will both figure out the
right thing to do with a file that ends in .gz, but I suppose to really do
it right, we should update the metadata standard to include a
TransferEncoding field as well as ContentType. Don't know how that would
work with the dublin core version of the Info fields tho..
--
# tavin cole
#
# "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect,
# a continual flight from wonder."
# - Albert Einstein
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