On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Daniel Schwen <lists(a)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.