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From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Aryeh Gregor
Sent: 17 September 2009 00:46
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l]
Usabilityinitiative(HotCatreplacement/improvements etc.)
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Daniel Schwen
<lists(a)schwen.de> wrote:
> My personal prefered solution would be to
have the icons
in SVG and
> embed them directly into the page. But I
guess that is not
acceptable
>> for the browser agnostic wikipedia audience.
>
> There are always data: urls, which would also save a roundtrip.
But
without some
serverside support to automatically embed those this
would create a maintenance nightmare.
These icons are being added to the page by the software, so
automatic embedding is no problem. But IE doesn't support
data: before version 8. data: with SVG would avoid the extra
requests and latency, but then of course you don't get to do
caching!
Caching is still possible, with SDCH compression but only
Chromium/Chrome, and possibly IE with Google Toolbar, have
implementations.
Web development is fun.
No comment :)
Jared