[whatwg] Multiple file download

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<ash at ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> Ideally I guess then, the browsers would support .tar.gz files as these give much better compression than .zip.

ZIP and gzip give comparable compression, in my experience.  I just
applied both to a random 3.5M text file lying around in /tmp, and got
exactly 170K for both.  bzip2, 7-Zip, and xz tend to give better
compression.