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Re:The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome by colanderman on Thursday August 23, 2012 @09:38AM (#4422250)
> Compressing an already-compressed file can make it bigger due to metainfo

That's not why, that's just a reason why doing so is silly.

> the gzip algorithm isn't optimised as well for images as say, jpeg.

gzip is used in PNG.

Read the article; the reason is because he wasn't sending gzip data, just deflate data.

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