Email conversation
| From | Jeevan Bihari |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | How to decompress large compressed strings in Javascript |
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| Date | 10 July 2005 08:10 |
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Hello Tarquin,
I wasn't able to find any coverage for the following topic on Google or
your e-mail list on the HowToCreate website so I thought I'd ask you:
We are trying to create a large tree on an HTML page using
Javascript/DOM techniques. We would like to send the data for ALL the tree
nodes from the server in compressed form and then decompress the data for a
particular tree node on the Javscript side if the user chooses to expand
that node.
Can you recommend a good decompression tool on the Javascript site that
you may have used in the past. ? The only caveat is that this module cannot
be instantiated via ActiveX as most firewall systems disallow that.
Thanks,
Jeevan
| From | Me |
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| To | Jeevan Bihari |
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| Subject | Re: How to decompress large compressed strings in Javascript |
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| Date | 10 July 2005 12:09 |
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Jeevan,
> Can you recommend a good decompression tool on the Javascript site that
> you may have used in the past. ?
I have never used any of them, but there are several compression tools you
can use:
http://www.radok.com/javascript-compression.html
Most of them have their own algorithm for compression and decompression
built in, which should be fairly easy to translate into other languages if
needed.
> The only caveat is that this module cannot
> be instantiated via ActiveX as most firewall systems disallow that.
And it only works in IE. And IE sucks ;)
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/