Bug#41352: compressed HTML/dhelp
Ron wrote:
Hi Ron!
> > Where does the HTML standard describe compressed HTML files?
> > HTML is defined as an uncompressed format.
> So its against the standard for your modem to compress them too??
Your modem sends compressed data to your computer?
The compression between both modems is part of the
modem standard. You can compare the problem with the
ISDN compression. It´s not part of the ISDN standard
and all ISDN cards use different algorithms.
> > Really? How can I do this as a *user*?
> ok, this is a slightly more real problem, but surely you communicate
> with your sysadmin??
Have you even used a computer just with the permissions of
a user? Terrible. Most system (for example here at my home
university or at the unversity of manchester) are in a very
bad condition. Very often you have to work with telnet on
a remote system, because the people have got WinNT systems only.
And then it would be nice to read the documentation on the
remote system via the http protocol.
> If (s)he doesn't care that something on the
> system is unusable to you then you have a much bigger problem than
> compressed html ;-)
Well ...
> precedent that spreads to other packages too. Even versions of
> netscape that don't support it by default can be configured pretty
> easily to send anything with a .gz extension to a helper program
> (ie. gzip) to decompress them before display. (and there are .gz
> decompressors for other OS's too)
Really? How can you configure this? The helper programs handle
document types and not transfer encodings. In fact most netscape
versions seems to be broken. When you download a tar.gz file for
example, netscape stores it as .tar without decompressing it.
> Configuring your software to be able to read docs you need to read
> seems a whole lot less painful than ultimately requiring some other
> people to install new hardware so they can have them installed.
Sorry, but I don´t see the problem. If we´re interested to save
disk space, we should start to remove all useless info documents
(several packages include one document in more than one format).
cu, Marco
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