[webkit-dev] Request for feedback on CompressionStream and DecompressionStream

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Hi all,

This is a very belated reply but what's being proposed seems
reasonable to us (Apple's WebKit team). We would like to know more
about use cases, and how they might be deployed in real websites / use
cases but we don't see any major issues with it.

- R. Niwa

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:18 PM Thomas Steiner <tomac at google.com> wrote:
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> You can see DecompressionStream in action in unarchiver, this is the relevant code snippet (run it in Chrome 79+ with the chrome://flags/#native-file-system-api and the chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features flags set).
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> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 6:07 AM Adam Rice <ricea at chromium.org> wrote:
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>> I am trying to gauge feedback on compression streams with a view to shipping them in Chromium.
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>> Very briefly, they are a way to do gzip and gunzip in the browser. Less briefly, the explainer https://github.com/WICG/compression/blob/master/explainer.md goes into some detail of the how and why. The specification https://wicg.github.io/compression/ gives verbose detail of how. You may also find the W3C TAG review https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/410 interesting.
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