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Why does the absolute filesize of SVG matter? Nearly all web servers will compress it before putting it on the wire.
by jfoster 13y ago
Why does the absolute filesize of SVG matter? Nearly all web servers will compress it before putting it on the wire.
- ZenoArrow 13y agoIt's not just the filesize, it's also the rendering speed. I'm not saying SVG is terrible, I'm just pointing out there's probably room for a smaller vector format that's more focused on the needs of modern websites.
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- corresation 13y agoSVG is astonishingly concise. Most renderers are remarkably efficiently. It is very gzippable. Your criticisms are based upon nothing.
- ZenoArrow 13y agoAstonishingly concise? SVG is based on XML, I don't think I've ever seen XML and 'astonishingly concise' in the same sentence before, congratulations for being the first. Besides, I've already pointed to another vector format that is far more concise, just by way of example. SVG is versatile, a jack of all trades if you will, but concise it is not.
- corresation 13y ago>SVG is based on XML, I don't think I've ever seen XML and 'astonishingly concise' in the same sentence before, congratulations for being the first. The rudiments of the vector description is extremely concise. That it is XML is superficially irrelevant, and if you really think the text markers are so important, consider it a highly compressible binary format via GZIP. Ultimately it doesn't matter. I've never seen any metric that holds SWF as being more efficient than real-world SVG.