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!
Web development is fun.