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Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression
Date 2014-11-28 17:57 +0100
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
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Chris White wrote:

> I think JavaScript should include nice simple functions for compression.
> Like bzip, lzma, rar, lha, gzip,  and all the other popular compression
> formats. There are nice functions to inflate file size (btoa for base64
> encoding, call atob to decode), why not something that deflates sizes?
> 
> I also think HTML5 should have full compression & decompression built in
> too. This day and age, I think it should be standard.
> 
> There is nothing or no one on this planet that can change my mind.

I hate to break this to you, but then you are off-topic here.  This is a 
place for discussion, for the exchange of opinions in (hopefully) 
constructive arguments.  Not your blog.

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JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 03:34 -0800
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-27 13:46 +0100
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-27 15:26 +0100
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-28 06:16 -0800
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-28 06:17 -0800
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-28 06:27 -0800
    Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-28 15:43 +0100
    Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-28 16:16 +0100
      Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-28 07:21 -0800
        Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-28 17:04 +0100
          Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-11-28 18:26 +0100
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-28 08:20 -0800
    Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-28 17:57 +0100
      Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-28 10:10 -0800
    Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression danca <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2014-11-28 22:31 +0100
      Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-28 15:01 -0800
      Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-29 14:48 +0100
        Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-29 15:05 +0100
          [OT] Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression danca <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2014-12-01 18:44 +0100
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-11-29 06:46 +0000
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-30 18:41 -0800
    Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-11-30 20:38 -0800
    Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-12-01 16:28 +0000
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-11-30 18:41 -0800
  Re: JavaScript Packers, Compression & Decompression Chris White <0ntariokingston@gmail.com> - 2014-12-15 15:54 -0800

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