New logo artwork?

Hi,

  May I assume the recent changes to http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home
and other images are accidental and their previous state will be re-
stored soon? It seems reasonable to assume that because

  * they now use the old #005A9C blue instead of the "new" #083D94
    (which would be a very bad idea, in my opinion)

  * they look most unprofessional, e.g. the tiny (R) in the image
    above is just blur dust, while it was legible in the old ones

  * the addition of SVG versions implies that popular user agents
    like Internet Explorer will typically render replacement images
    due to lack of SVG support in <img>

  * the updates were made only to some but not all images, e.g.
    http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home.png remains unmodified,
    just like e.g. the Valid Foo badges

  * the SVG versions are rather unprofessional and inaccessible,
    they won't work on mobile devices due to extensive and un-
    justified use of CSS, they encode text as paths instead of
    encoding them as text, and have other problems

  * there was no announcement of such a change that I know of,
    even though I would have to update offline packages of tools
    and documentation if it's not an accidental change

Thanks,
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Received on Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:52:51 UTC