I try to enable compression in script resource handler in web.config file. Analyzing the network traffic I discover that this works fine under Opera, Mozilla Firefox, IE7 but don't work under IE6. Detailed description of this problem is on
http://nmarian.blogspot.com/2007/08/aspnet-ajax-script-compression-dont.html
ScottGu
has commented that it's because some versions of IE6 have bug where they don't handle gzip script file correctly. Therefore they have disabled script compesssion for IE 6. In previous link to docs there's explained how you can enable it, however at your
own risk.
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Script compression don't work in IE6
Aug 12, 2007 08:39 AM|Marian Kostal|LINK
I try to enable compression in script resource handler in web.config file. Analyzing the network traffic I discover that this works fine under Opera, Mozilla Firefox, IE7 but don't work under IE6. Detailed description of this problem is on http://nmarian.blogspot.com/2007/08/aspnet-ajax-script-compression-dont.html
Can anybody explain this?
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Re: Script compression don't work in IE6
Aug 12, 2007 09:04 AM|joteke|LINK
See Remarks section on following page: http://asp.net/ajax/documentation/live/mref/T_System_Web_Handlers_ScriptResourceHandler.aspx
ScottGu has commented that it's because some versions of IE6 have bug where they don't handle gzip script file correctly. Therefore they have disabled script compesssion for IE 6. In previous link to docs there's explained how you can enable it, however at your own risk.
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