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 4504 Skype: david.d.foley On 31 Jan 2012, at 20:56, Andrea Giammarchi <[email protected]> wrote: > just an UP for this topic ... anyone with other thoughts ? > > cheers > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Andrea Giammarchi > <[email protected]> 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 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 simple > notice: this app gonna use your memory/sd/disk space > > Still talking about mobile, these libraries are a complete no-go for CPU cost > > Finally, if I have a gzipped file I want to work on it and keep it small I'd > like to choose it via an input, decode it, work on it, and create the > download with data:text/gzip to save it back > > There are attempts since ages about compressing strings in plain JavaScript, > I don't see why this is not in yet 'cause I don't see any reason to do not > make it happen, only limits for slower CPUs and developers > solutions/imagination > > I hope I answered your question > > br > > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Wes Garland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > Director, Product Development > PageMail, Inc. > +1 613 542 2787 x 102 > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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