WICG/compression-dictionary-transport
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11 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2023-05-04 · latest 2025-07-04
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Some examples here: https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport/blo... show significant gain of using dictionary over compressed w/o dictionary. It seems like instead of sites reducing bloat, they will just shift the bloat to…
comment by ks2048 · 2025-07-04 · in Compression Dictionary Transport -
Absolutely, for the use cases where it makes sense. There are some examples here: https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport/blo... In the web case, it mostly only makes sense if users are using a site for more than one page…
comment by patrickmeenan · 2024-09-15 · in Compression Dictionary Transport -
…support around it, to revive SDCH. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meenan-httpbis-compre... https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport https://chromestatus.com/feature/5124977788977152 It also has some additional use…
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-06-22 · in Exposition of Front End Build Systems -
…seems a bit complicated to me, but could be meaningful for web apps that are required to be large. https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport
comment by SquareWheel · 2024-04-01 · in Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding -
…cookies are cleared. So it seems it should not get you anything you cannot already do with cookies. https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport/blo...
comment by jiripospisil · 2024-03-06 · in Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome -
Talked about here: https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport
comment by qingcharles · 2023-09-22 · in Chrome feature: Compression dictionary transport with Shared Brotli -
From the spec ( https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport#fin... ): > The existence of a dictionary is effectively a cookie for any requests that match it and should be treated as such: > * Storage partitioning for…
comment by pimterry · 2023-09-22 · in Chrome feature: Compression dictionary transport with Shared Brotli -
There's a spec up for custom dictionary support across the web. https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport This was one of the major blockers that iirc Mozilla threw in the way of zstd compression support: they said zstd with…
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-07-24 · in Improving compression with a preset DEFLATE dictionary (2015) -
…but could then be used again and again by users, to great effect again for incremental changes. https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport Bundles are such an ugly stain on the web, such an awful hack that betrays the web's…
comment by rektide · 2023-05-04 · in JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser -
…dictionaries separately. With this, 98% of the compression advantage disappears out the window. https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport Neither of your approaches sounds like what I'd do. Personally I would build an http…
comment by rektide · 2023-05-04 · in JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser