> I would have expected at least some simple domain-specific compression. Why? The site is static, so it's cached and browsers get a 304 when they come back. F

> I would have expected at least some simple domain-specific compression. Why? The site is static, so it's cached and browsers get a 304 when they come back. For new players the server compresses the whole thing in flight, not just the word list. Doing some fancy domain-specific compression on the word list would have added unnecessary complexity (read: places for bugs to creep in) and taken time/effort away from more important things.