gzip + chunked encoding = works

http://arantius.info/gzip-chunk.php

Notice headers: Content-Encoding gzip Transfer-Encoding chunked

And also notice the 10 second delay between the two paragraphs appearing in your browser. (At least it does for me, in FF3. In IE6, it only happens on the second-and-on load (F5).) It's perfectly possible, for a compliant browser, to download, and render, the page incrementally, even with gzip compression applied.