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Add "header" for compressed items

See original GitHub issue

Since your main goal was to use it with localStorage (similar to mine). It would be interesting to prepend on the compressed string a kind of header. Something along the lines of data URIs in CSS but less verbose. Example:

"lz;<encoded data>"

In that way it makes easier to identify if the data being used is compressed or not.

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JobLeonardcommented, Oct 19, 2018

just add a version flag and check against that

As Rycochet mentioned: that’s not so simple because the current format is pure a raw compression string without any metadata. However, I just wrote a proposal for how one might want to approach a newer format in a backwards-compatible way. Have a look.

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heflercommented, Oct 19, 2018

@JobLeonard That’s more like it! 😃 👏

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