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Carl Franklin posts a pretty interesting little Stream / Object compression library

Find it here, I posted a comment about compressing ViewState - I'm really surprised that no-one seems to have done this yet - seems to be the most obvious thing to compress in a page and should have pretty good compression ratios - I may try this again myself...keep you posted :-)

Print | posted on Saturday, December 13, 2003 7:05 PM | Filed Under [ .NET ]

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# re: Carl Franklin posts a pretty interesting little Stream / Object compression library

I saw that comment of yours, and thought it was pretty good.

I've certainly been more than a little irritated by how much mucky-muck is generated just to preserve a few values in some text boxes. In some projects I've worked on, pages for which the markup totals to 100k or more aren't all that rare, and that's *bad* - it's the sort of "bad" that makes you want to shut off view state.

I'm sure that some will argue about the load on the server to compress everything, but coding for the web is *always* give and take. The "give" of view state is that it's easy for the coder - the "take" is that it's hard on the end user with a dial-up connection. Since user experience is pretty bloody-stinking important, it would be a good idea to move some of the "take" back onto the developer's shoulders.

That's my opinion anyway... Which is to say that I agree!

12/14/2003 8:10 AM | Rory

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