Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Jared Williams jared.williams1@ntlworld.com wrote:
See no reason why svg isn't precompressed with gzip, and given a svgz extension.
It's still 188K gzipped. The 22x13px PNG used in [[Bethlehem]] is 300 bytes, close to 1000 times smaller. Some way to compress SVGs *lossily* is clearly needed here.
Philosophically, it shouldn't be done. Someone might want to print a Wikipedia article on a building, and the 500K flag would then look just right.
Pragmatically, if you don't care about printing articles on buildings and are ready to lossily compress SVGs, there is no particular need to use SVG when PNG will do.
Otherwise, the idea of lossily compressing SVGs is very interesting, and I believe it could be done :)