-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Max Semenik Sent: 16 September 2008 10:50 To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] SVG conversion options -- rsvg vs Inkscape?
On 16.09.2008, 13:35 David wrote:
2008/9/15 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu:
Brion Vibber wrote:
http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2008/09/inkscape-shell-patch.html (You'll find lots of examples of not-rendering-right files on our bugzilla -- search for SVG!)
See also
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pictures_showing_a_librsvg
_bug
Interesting! See also my ad-hoc benchmarks at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SVG_benchmarksFrom those I disrecommended Inkscape on Unix systems - the
rendering
is good, but rsvg is twice as fast and uses much less memory. (On Windows, the fact that Inkscape comes in a standalone
package makes it
much easier to set up and use, and mediawiki-l has many
happy users of
Inkscape for SVGs on Windows.)
But rsvg is a library and Inkscape is a full application, so that would *plausibly* explain the overhead (I don't know if
it's actually
the case).
Obviously those will need rerunning with the Inkscape shell
if anyone
has a spare moment :-)
What's the quality of in-browser SVG rendering on Firefox
3.0 and 3.1?
Looking at it casually, FF 3 betas did good rendering but
weren't very
fast. OTOH, sending the hard work to the client when you
know it's up
to the task is reasonable these days. I believe ordinary HTML <img src="something.svg" height=nn width=nn> works fine. (Haven't tried Safari, Chrome or Opera.)
- d.
[cc: to mediawiki-l]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Mexico.svg is 500kb, while most uses of it are 25px thumbnails. Something must be done about it. Also, there are people who still use IE5, Netscape or other kinds of nonsense who will be unable to see SVGs.
See no reason why svg isn't precompressed with gzip, and given a svgz extension. Seems to require Content-Encoding: gzip header for Chrome & FF3
But then renders Opera, Chrome & FF3.
Jared