> ... using gzip compression over the wire seems pretty stone-age. Really? Probably half of all web servers on the Internet (using HTTP/1.1) use it. > The pro

> ... using gzip compression over the wire seems pretty stone-age. Really? Probably half of all web servers on the Internet (using HTTP/1.1) use it. > The proper solution is surely to use a modern lossy video-compression algorithm. The X11 protocol doesn't send bitmaps so I'm not certain that a "lossy video-compression algorithm" is gonna have the effect you think it will.