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[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Nikola Smolenski
Sent: 16 September 2008 15:35
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG conversion options -- rsvg vs Inkscape?
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Jared Williams
<jared.williams1(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
> See no reason why svg isn't precompressed with gzip, and
given a svgz
extension.
It's still 188K gzipped. The 22x13px PNG used in
[[Bethlehem]] is 300
bytes, close to 1000 times smaller. Some way to
compress SVGs
*lossily* is clearly needed here.
Philosophically, it shouldn't be done. Someone might want to
print a Wikipedia article on a building, and the 500K flag
would then look just right.
Pragmatically, if you don't care about printing articles on
buildings and are ready to lossily compress SVGs, there is no
particular need to use SVG when PNG will do.
Otherwise, the idea of lossily compressing SVGs is very
interesting, and I believe it could be done :)
Not sure. Obviously working out the most effiecient stylesheet for a given
svg, removing repeated style attributes would be one area. But might effect
the editability of the image. It could be like trying to edit a minified
javascript file.
Producing a smaller SVG thumbnail of a SVG image would definitely be
possible. Looking at Flag_of_Mexico, almost all the coordinates have several
decimal places, so could reduce the accurancy of those in a smaller image
without loosing anything.
Jared