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It's also possible to implement a decompressor in javascript to support browsers which don't do it natively. The performance would likely suck but if you're truly bandwidth constrained and don't mind users having a bit of a lag, it's an option...


Assuming the size of the decompressor isn't larger than the savings you gained from using this compression algo over another...


Well the decompressor would be cached by the browser so it would pay off for repeat visitors. And if it gets used enough, the user will already have downloaded the decompressor from another site.


And easily shared across sites if they all use a popular CDN'd version.




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