@Sky: Yeah, compression is very important. Note, that you don't have to do it yourself: Most servers and browsers support HTTP gzip Content- Encoding (usually just a switch in the server config to turn it on).
Chris On Jun 13, 4:46 am, Sky <[email protected]> wrote: > Second, I seriously suggest using compression if the data is mostly > text. It's not hard at all to write a good lossless compression > program using Huffman coding in any language... I'm sure it would be > possible to do it in JavaScript (or GWT) and I'm sure the code would > not be large. I wrote a simple Huffman compression app a couple years > ago in University, it was easy and small. Then you can compress the > data on the server, send it and uncompress it on the client. That > would be awesome! Text can be compressed anywhere from 30%-60%+. That > will directly translate into speed! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
