JavaScript considered harmful (was Re: New online index to Be azley's tutorials)

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: Michael Ströder [mailto:michael at stroeder.com]
> 
> "Delaney, Timothy" wrote:
> > 
> > For example, in a particular project I worked on, the 
> results of a search
> > page as straight HTML ended up being approx 2MB in size. 
> Not feasible over
> > our international link.
> 
> Did you consider using Content-Encoding: gzip and compress the data
> on-the-fly? Usually works very well.

IIS 4.0 :(

If *anyone* knows how to do it with IIS 4.0 (I've done extensive searches
online) please let me know for future reference. There are 1 or 2 places
that have commercial options, but for a single page that is not
cost-effective when 1 hour of Javascript coding gives a 20x improvement.

Tim Delaney