On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Tim Hutt <[email protected]> wrote: > gzip and zip both use the same algorithm which is called DEFLATE. For a > single file they will give exactly the same results. tar.gz has a slight > advantage for multiple files because it treats them as one big file. That's > called 'solid compression'. However it does mean that in order to do > anything with tar.gz, including just seeing what's inside it you have to > decompress all of it first. That's a massive disadvantage. Zip is also much > more widely supported, and it doesn't suffer from the annoying 'archive with > an archive' thing. > > Anyway, I think providing multiple file downloads in a zip is fine - is > anyone really complaining? >
Er... sure. It is not as convenient for certain web apps when compared to desktop apps. With this supported, the gap get's reduced.
