• From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@m...>
• To: 'XML-DEV' <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:09:09 -0800

Sure.  Size is undoubtably important in many cases.  In some circumstances,
however, it may be a reasonable trade-off to allow a modem to compress a
file rather than spending server cycles on a generic compression such as
GZIP.

-----Original Message-----
From: len bullard [mailto:cbullard@h...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 4:04 PM
To: Andrew Layman
Cc: 'XML-DEV'
Subject: Re: A practical question about attributes


Andrew Layman wrote:
> 
> Something else to think about is that most modems contain compression
> software, so what looks like a wordy XML file will be sent as far fewer
> bytes.
> 

That was the VRML answer too during the VRML 97 design effor, Andrew,
and darned if everyone is still not trying to find ways to make the
files smaller.  

Apparently, every byte is sacred.

len

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