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Max Semenik
Sent: 16 September 2008 10:50
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG conversion options -- rsvg vs Inkscape?
On 16.09.2008, 13:35 David wrote:
2008/9/15 Nikola Smolenski
<smolensk(a)eunet.yu>yu>:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
>>
http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2008/09/inkscape-shell-patch.html
>> (You'll find lots of examples of not-rendering-right files on our
>> bugzilla -- search for SVG!)
> See also
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pictures_showing_a_librsvg
> _bug
Interesting! See also my ad-hoc benchmarks at:
From those I disrecommended Inkscape on Unix
systems - the
rendering
is good, but rsvg is twice as fast and uses much
less memory. (On
Windows, the fact that Inkscape comes in a standalone
package makes it
much easier to set up and use, and mediawiki-l
has many
happy users of
Inkscape for SVGs on Windows.)
But rsvg is a library and Inkscape is a full
application, so that
would *plausibly* explain the overhead (I don't know if
it's actually
the case).
Obviously those will need rerunning with the
Inkscape shell
if anyone
has a spare moment :-)
What's the quality of in-browser SVG
rendering on Firefox
3.0 and 3.1?
Looking at it casually, FF 3 betas did good
rendering but
weren't very
fast. OTOH, sending the hard work to the client
when you
know it's up
to the task is reasonable these days. I believe
ordinary HTML <img
src="something.svg" height=nn width=nn> works fine. (Haven't tried
Safari, Chrome or Opera.)
- d.
[cc: to mediawiki-l]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Mexico.svg is
500kb, while most uses of it are 25px thumbnails. Something
must be done about it.
Also, there are people who still use IE5, Netscape or other
kinds of nonsense who will be unable to see SVGs.
See no reason why svg isn't precompressed with gzip, and given a svgz
extension.
Seems to require Content-Encoding: gzip header for Chrome & FF3
But then renders Opera, Chrome & FF3.
Jared