(keitai-l) Re: Useful inventions...for conserved news?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mika Tuupola" <tuupola_at_appelsiini.net>
To: <keitai-l_at_appelsiini.net>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 5:50 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Useful inventions...for conserved news?


> On Fri, 18 May 2001, Henry Minsky wrote:
> 
> > One thing I have wondered about is compression of text for iMode.
> > At a max of 9600 baud, you would think you could get some significant
> > gains by compressing text on the fly between server and keitai. Maybe
> 
> In the conventional web this is allready widely supported
> (by the browsers) but mostly unknown (by the developers)
> feature. Most browsers releases since 1999 are capable of
> receiving compressed content. "Most" meaning all HTTP 1.1
> compliant browsers.

Except for having special codes to expand to "deai" and other
words frequently found in spam (*sigh*), I wonder if compression
would really buy you that much, given how short most i-mode
pages are.

-m
leap_at_gol.com



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