On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Robin Berjon <ro...@w3.org> wrote: > Another question to take into account here is whether this should only be > about zip. One of the limitations of zip archives is that they aren't > streamable. Without boiling the ocean, adding support for a streamable > format (which I don't think needs be more complex than tar) would be a big > plus. >
Zips are streamable. That's what the local file headers are for. http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT -- Glenn Maynard