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Hi everybody. I'm building an site that will load a bunch of overlays into Google Maps. The overlays are static and already in JSON format to be loaded with AJAX. This all works fine, ajax request, json parse, adding overlay. But the json files are quite big, the largest has …

Sorry I have been searching for hours and hours now been looking for a way to gzip a file in javascript client side so i can then upload it and unzip it server side. You may ask why not just zip it normally? This is for my users and most …

This snippet provides 2 functions to create in memory a gziped archive of a sequence of files and directories, and to extract files from this archive. These functions are similar in effect to the linux commands [icode]tar czf[/icode] and [icode]tar xzf[/icode] but instead of writing an archive file on disk, …