On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Libia has a 1:1 aspect ratio flag?!
But really, no it doesn't 'scale perfectly': Any image that when properly downsampled to 1px produces the correct green color is a 'correct' upsampling of a 1px by 1px green image. That the upsamplers you tend to use are so unimaginative that they produce solid fields of green when given a single green pixel still does not make the 1px single color as scalable as a SVG.
The point about nothing mattering if it's under 4 KB is interesting, though, and worth keeping in mind for micro-optimizations.
Right, that was really why I bothered posting.