Brotli
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[[Brotli]] is a compressed data format developed by Google. It is designed for a high compression ratio, and fast decompression. When used as a web content compression encoding, it uses <code>br</code> in the <code>Accept-Encoding</code> header so that a browser can signal support; this support is present in newer versions of Firefox and Chrome as of early 2016. | [[Brotli]] is a compressed data format developed by Google. It is designed for a high compression ratio, and fast decompression. When used as a web content compression encoding, it uses <code>br</code> in the <code>Accept-Encoding</code> header so that a browser can signal support; this support is present in newer versions of Firefox and Chrome as of early 2016. | ||
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+ | While the addition of this format to Firefox/Mozilla was still under discussion, there was a bit of a mini-flap over earlier proposals to use "bro" as the encoding identifier (and file extension for Brotli-compressed files), as this was deemed by some to be [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559#c147 misogynistic]. After some debate over <code>bro</code> vs. <code>brotli</code> vs. <code>br</code>, the shorter of these was ultimately adopted. | ||
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Revision as of 18:43, 26 June 2016
Brotli is a compressed data format developed by Google. It is designed for a high compression ratio, and fast decompression. When used as a web content compression encoding, it usesbr
in the Accept-Encoding
header so that a browser can signal support; this support is present in newer versions of Firefox and Chrome as of early 2016.
While the addition of this format to Firefox/Mozilla was still under discussion, there was a bit of a mini-flap over earlier proposals to use "bro" as the encoding identifier (and file extension for Brotli-compressed files), as this was deemed by some to be misogynistic. After some debate over bro
vs. brotli
vs. br
, the shorter of these was ultimately adopted.