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Ask HN: Why HN logo not in SVG?
- shoo 9y agoMake a business case for it
- crehn 9y agoLooks pretty. Pretty things are nice. Nice things are good.
- BorisMelnik 9y agoits a very HN type of thing to do...code an image, that is
- bananicorn 9y agoIt could get re-used as part of the logo on the main y-combinator site, and the same logo could be cached ;) But then again, HN itself is already easily fast enough, and you don't optimize when you don't have to. But probably not worth the effort - the extra CSS might mess up the equation.
- balazsdavid987 9y agoExplain the performance benefits
- crehn 9y agoIt looks pretty, not a question of performance.
- Scirra_Tom 9y agoProbably smaller file size and will look better on hi dpi displays?
- CM30 9y agoProbably because it's so small that the benefits of making it an SVG would be almost nil. I mean, look at this thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.gif https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.gif It's 0.1KB. It's so small that any SVG version of it would actually be a larger file (seriously, I tested it with an SVG converter script online, and the SVG came back at 0.6KB). There's no practical reason to convert it, at least not as far as file size is concerned.
- muzani 9y agoBecause it's not about optimizing every little thing. It's about getting it good enough. And even when something sounds better in theory, it might not be that way in practice.
- malux85 9y agoBeing a hacker is about knowing when something is good enough. It's about focusing on interesting content rather than pixel perfection. It's about shipping on Tuesday rather than shipping on Friday. It's about optimising the things that are important. I like it, even if it's a big pixel-y on hi def displays, it's a reminder that done is better than perfect
- krapp 9y agoI don't recall reading any of that in the Hacker Manifesto...
- fairpx 9y agoWhat would improve for the end user, when it was in SVG?
- maxraz 9y agoIt could be in .svg for a sharper look on smartphones
- brett40324 9y agoBecause 99.9% of users don't care and have or never will pay any attention to it. Just like most other logos, or design aesthetics - they are more perceived than actively thought about by consumers.