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by lifthrasiir 1675 days ago
Brotli was arguably designed specifically for the web, because it was originally used in the WOFF2 font format and also had a large amount of preset dictionary collected from the web (including HTML, CSS and JS fragments). Zstandard had no such consideration, and while it could be as efficient as Brotli with a correct dictionary it does have a less merit compared to Brotli in the web context.