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Yeah but the point here is to produce a .gz file which is compatible with standard tools like gunzip, PNG decoders, your browser's handling of "Content-Encoding
by andrewf 14y ago
Yeah but the point here is to produce a .gz file which is compatible with standard tools like gunzip, PNG decoders, your browser's handling of "Content-Encoding: gzip", etc.
If you control the compressor and decompressor then applying new tricks to producing a Deflate stream is far less interesting, just use a better compressor.
- Jach 14y agoCan we get browsers to support LZMA? :) (Hey, a bug report! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559) But yeah, zopfli does seem like an excellent fit when you can't force a particular decompressor.