UIDL Compressor problem

[aschild (André Schild)]

[quote=Matti Tahvonen]

@John Ahlroos

And to rephrase myself, I think all this kind of add ons are good thing for Vaadin community. I brought up this discussion just to ensure that nobody thinks this is the de-facto (or the one and only) method of setting compression on for their web apps. At least I still believe that using the http level compression (in any of the several methods) is the superior over UIDL Compressor add-on.

I too think that http level compression provides better results, since (at least) decoding on client side can be done by the native browser engine, probably written in C/C++
When we do the decoding with javascript, then this is usually somewhat slower.

But it’s good to have the option, for example when we can’t enable it on server level for whatever reasons.

André

[Matti (Matti Tahvonen)]

@André Schild

But it’s good to have the option, for example when we can’t enable it on server level for whatever reasons.

Exactly. But for me it is still bit unclear if there is a use case where one can use this add-on, but cannot use e.g. jetty projects gzip filter.

Useful or not, working and discussing on this kind of projects is great thing as we increase Vaadin know-how. John and also other Vaadin users learn to do some complex modifications to Vaadin. E.g. I guess this add-on is the first one that customizes the UIDL communication mechanism, but is not built by me. And that is some “HC” stuff as that part of Vaadin really hasn’t been designed for extension.

cheers,
matti