Workarounds I've seen for this include gzip systems adding 2K of whitespace before compression and/or setting headers to dissalow caching of gzipped script files on IE. It's almost always worth it since gzip is one of the best ways to reduce page loading latency.
Regards On Tuesday 17 January 2006 8:10 pm, Bob Ippolito wrote: > On Jan 17, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote: > >> IE doesn't support gzip compression, right? > > > > In general, it does not support it correctly for JavaScript. > > Something about truncating or corrupting the first 5k if it comes > > out of cache, IIRC. > > Here's one of the bugs, sounds like it's fixed in IE 6.0 SP1 though. > Perhaps you could detect the patch level of IE on the server and gzip > conditionally. I didn't find any definitive reference for IE gzip > quirks on first google, so there might be other bugs that come into > play here. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q312496 > > -bob -- Alex Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] BE03 E88D EABB 2116 CC49 8259 CF78 E242 59C3 9723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] F687 1964 1EF6 453E 9BD0 5148 A15D 1D43 AB92 9A46
