On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Ashley Sheridan <[email protected]> wrote: > Ideally I guess then, the browsers would support .tar.gz files as these give > much better compression than .zip.
ZIP and gzip give comparable compression, in my experience. I just applied both to a random 3.5M text file lying around in /tmp, and got exactly 170K for both. bzip2, 7-Zip, and xz tend to give better compression.
