On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, but that can still only get you so far. The
SVG version of
Libya's flag on Wikimedia is 286 bytes, but I can make an equally
scalable GIF that's just 35 bytes. :P
No you can't.
The GIF is only 'equally scalable' if you make certain (bad)
assumptions about how it should be scaled which may be valid for that
image but which would be completely wrong for most others.
Maybe you were missing my point? The flag of Libya is solid green, so
a one-pixel GIF is tiny and scales perfectly. My comment was about as
serious as the one it was responding to, i.e., it wasn't.
The point about nothing mattering if it's under 4 KB is interesting,
though, and worth keeping in mind for micro-optimizations.