Odd & Even Compressing Web Pages

Meet Odd & Even who have been working dag og natt to help Opera fine-tune Opera Turbo before the release of Opera 10. Follow their adventures on their blog:

http://my.opera.com/odd-even/blog

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[adamsonxxfifteen]

Best browser ever! :D

[lordhelpus]

So, my browser has two little blonde guys inside of it who compress web pages when I turn on Turbo?

AWESOME.

[irvingadkins616]

Your video is a favorite on Italy

[dandara87]

thanks opera, keep compressing!!! lol

[jjovereats]

@lordhelpus Emulated lol.

[aquapendulum]

0:59 no strings attatched

LOL

[JellyWoo1014]

lol, love how the boxes are pulled by strings

[cooliodude96529]

@Evi1M4chine

dude... shut up.

[nidaros1112]

Well, Opera is Norwegian - but they have a Swedish division that does some of the work on the Turbo feature if I remember correctly?

[johnnysaucepn]

Turbo doesn't just compress HTML. It sends pages in a binary format much smaller than Apache gzipping can do. And it does compress images with losses, that's exactly the point. If you're on a slow connection, the loss of image quality is worth the sacrifice.

[Evi1M4chine]

Obviously you can compress HTML well. Its based on the very retardedly verbose XML/SGML. But if you use Apache, just enable compression, and be done with it. No need for Opera.

And you cant re-compress the already compressed existing embedded media like images/sound/video/etc without losses anyway. So it will not help on that, or make pictures look worse.

Opera is nice, but no thanks on all of that. On most servers, compression is enabled anyway. And I dont need them sniffing my connection.