Re: two ideas...

William C. Cheng (william@cs.columbia.edu)
Wed, 29 Nov 1995 17:07:41 -0500


> I have two ideas which I would like to get some feedback on. One is
> to use compressed HTML/Java instead of regular HTML. The second is to
> implement intelligent pre-fetching for the web.
>
> I have written a paper on each of the above ideas. Please look at
> the papers for the details. They are available at:
>
> http://sneaker.pc.cs.cmu.edu/Sneaker/Papers/
>
> I would be interested in hearing some feedback from people on these ideas.

Regarding compressed HTML (or HTZL, as mentioned in your paper), why not
just use the Content-Encoding in HTTP/1.0 <URL:http://www.w3.org/hypertext/
WWW/Protocols/HTTP1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html#Content-Encoding>?

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