-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@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@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