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The article doesn't really describe how they came to choose those two formats. What about gzip, bzip2, tar, 7z, etc.? (I tried uploading a tgz file and it does
by nathanb 15y ago
The article doesn't really describe how they came to choose those two formats. What about gzip, bzip2, tar, 7z, etc.?
(I tried uploading a tgz file and it doesn't appear to work).
The comment at the end ("We're always adding more file types to the Google Docs Viewer") suggests that these types may be considered at some point, but seems like once the infrastructure is there you get most other compression formats for free (assuming they're calling a server-side process to do the extraction rather than either reading the header themselves in javascript or rolling their own uncompression in their backend language without calling out).
- FaceKicker 15y ago> The article doesn't really describe how they came to choose those two formats. I'd guess it's because they're the most common file compression formats? The formats you mentioned are pretty obscure to most mainstream users.
- aristidb 15y ago.tar.gz is not that uncommon, I would say. And once you have .tar.gz, support for .tar.bz2 is trivial to add.
- cdcarter 15y agoAnd I would say that if you are attempting to open an archive on Google Docs Viewer, it's probably an archive of documents, and I would say that almost all archives of documents are in .zip or .rar.
- yuhong 15y ago>.tar.gz is not that uncommon, I would say. On Unix, as tar has been built-in to Unix for decades.
- cema 15y agoAnd therefore OSX.
- gnoupi 15y agoIt is uncommon to the regular user, though, who is probably the one targeted by this feature.
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