xyzzyyzzyx writes:
"Avantslash is touting a user hosted perl script that, if paired with any web browser with JavaScript, promises to shave crucial bytes off of the standard Slash-based experience, one of which is our very own SoylentNews. Audiences include those with very limited bandwidth, such as those in developing countries with only 2G mobile access or dialup."
(Score: 3, Informative) by TheLink on Thursday March 13 2014, @03:50AM
AND how much does it really save if you already have compression on the cache (or web server if you don't use a cache)?
https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/co mpression.html [varnish-cache.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression [wikipedia.org]
I believe most mobile browsers support gzip nowadays.
High text sites like SN compress really well. An intelligent cache would only have to do the compression once whenever the page changes.