----- Original Message -----
From: "Mika Tuupola" <tuupola@appelsiini.net>
To: <keitai-l@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@gol.com
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Received on Fri May 18 15:45:54 2001