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Cool hack. Of course, running GZIP on your server renders it all useless.

• noodle 16y ago
  original article: > And before anyone else points out how gzip is superior, this is in no way meant as a realistic alternative.
  • sjs 16y ago
    What's the use case then?
    • noodle 16y ago
      there has to be a use case?
      • sjs 16y ago
        Of course not! But if there's no use case then this is getting an awful lot of buzz for no real reason other than Ajaxian running a story on it, considering that it's not that new. http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/compression-using-canvas-and-png.html http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/compression-using-canvas-an... It's been on reddit or hacker news before, this year iirc.
        • noodle 16y ago
          as the ajaxian article stated, i believe that people are trying to make use of it to squeeze the most out of the size-limited javascript contests that are out there. but, i've not seen an entry that does yet (haven't looked that hard though).
          • bmelton 16y ago
            I think js10k limits entries to those only readable in UTF-8 which, I believe, a PNG (compressed or uncompressed) does not meet.
    • damncabbage 16y ago
      Tech demos or challenges, like what people are submitting for 10K Apart.
    • jacquesm 16y ago
      Malware obfuscation.