Bleh, powerpoint? May as well put it behind a door marked "Beware of the Leopard". There is a URL for a group at the end, but it won't let me in because I am no

Bleh, powerpoint? May as well put it behind a door marked "Beware of the Leopard". There is a URL for a group at the end, but it won't let me in because I am not a member. To summarize though: New http content encoding. Server defines dictionaries and tells clients which dictionaries to use for a request. Client loads the dictionary, presumably once for many pages. gzip is still used after the dictionary compression phase Claims a 40% savings in bytes over gzip alone. (Perhaps not counting the one time dictionary load.) Can't get protocol or specs without being accepted to a private group. Sounds like a good idea, but I'd like to see it compared to other compression algorithms that outperform gzip. I suspect it helps XML in particular. I had always assumed giant XML tags would compress away with gzip, but in practice replacing long tags with short tags is still a big win.