Comments on: Space-efficient Embedding of WebAssembly in JavaScript https://mpetroff.net/2021/02/space-efficient-embedding-of-webassembly-in-javascript/ mpetroff.net Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:58:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matthew Petroff https://mpetroff.net/2021/02/space-efficient-embedding-of-webassembly-in-javascript/#comment-322269 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:58:54 +0000 https://mpetroff.net/?p=3336#comment-322269 In reply to Aidan Chelig.

The Compression Streams API has been widely available since 2023, which provides gzip / deflate decompression and makes this technique obsolete. However, it still only exposes a subset of the browser’s decompression functionality, as Brotli and Zstandard are widely supported for compression of HTTP responses, but they are not supported by the Compression Streams API in most browsers.

]]> By: Aidan Chelig https://mpetroff.net/2021/02/space-efficient-embedding-of-webassembly-in-javascript/#comment-322182 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:16:28 +0000 https://mpetroff.net/?p=3336#comment-322182 this is so funny and cool! I wonder if browsers will ever expose the decompression implementations to js, i remember asking this question a while ago when i was downloading and unpacking zips in the browser with a npm library. the mechanism is there in every browser, why not let us utilize it?

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