Hi! Given that many containers (e.g. iGoogle) only allow 10K of persistent storage per Gadget*User, and given that 10K is not necessarily a huge amount of space (depending on your gadget), I was wondering if there was any proposed strategy to compress persistent data prior to storage.
Client-side data compression is possible, of course, but there are no standard JavaScript compression libraries that I could find, leaving the options to: - write my own JavaScript implementation of DEFLATE - use an embedded Java applet to do DEFALTE (heavy!!) - ? Server-side compression via zlib is easy enough with a custom Guice module, but when a gadget is hosted on iGoogle/Orkut, etc. then the server implementation is out of the control of the gadget implementer. What's the current recommendation? "Persist less"? :-) Are there plans to include some kind of data compression as a part of the persistence infrastructure? Thanks! Dave
