Re: Enable compression of a blob to .zip file

[Charles Pritchard]

On Nov 30, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.resc...@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2011-10-31 20:20, Charles Pritchard wrote:
>> On 10/31/11 11:34 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>>> On 10/31/11 1:42 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote:
>>>> I'm almost certain that somewhere, it is specified that the browser
>>>> should sniff the first few bytes of the file to see
>>>> if it is compressed.
>>> 
>>> I don't believe it is. In fact, doing that would contradict the specs
>>> as they stand, to my knowledge.
>>> 
>>> I could be wrong, of course, but in that case citation needed...
>>> 
>>> -Boris
>>> 
>> Well I've failed to find a citation. I will post one if I find it.
>> 
>> In the meantime: Blob and Data uris can and should have sniffing for
>> image/svg+xml.
>> ...
> 
> Nope. If you need gzipped SVG in data URIs, the right thing to do is to 
> either extend data URIs to support that, or to mint a separate media type.

Why? Seems like a lot of complexity for blob, data and file for something that 
could otherwise be handled by minimal code.