Re: PLEASE COMPRESS! (was Re: Height maps, etc.)

McEWAN Shane ([email protected])
Wed, 10 May 1995 16:40:30 -0500

On May 10, 4:34pm, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> Subject: PLEASE COMPRESS! (was Re: Height maps, etc.)
> On Tue, 9 May 1995, Chris Marrin wrote:
> If you are putting up VRML files on your web site, please please PLEASE
> gzip them. Every web server I've ever used knows to add a
> Content-Encoding line* which tells the browser to gunzip it. Come to
> think of it, I'm not sure if Netscape for windows and mac have gunzip
> routines built in, so you might still want to offer links to both the
> compressed and flat versions... but to not offer compressed versions is
> doing your visitors a real disservice.
>-- End of excerpt from Brian Behlendorf

I agree! With netlag what it is down here in Australia, Netscape estimated it
would take 125 hours to download a 1.5MB world! The smaller the files the
better! I just went straight for the "STOP" button and contented myself with
the < 100k files. :-(

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  Shane McEwan     CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research    [email protected]
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  appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA
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  also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.


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