- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:34:06 +0100
- To: "Charles A. Landemaine" <landemaine@gmail.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:25:29 +0100, Charles A. Landemaine <landemaine@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, SVG is promissing, however it would be interesting not having to > link to an external file and being able to use gradients (and other > visual effects) only with a style steet. Think about these large > portals that have more than a hundred image files (ie: CNN, Yahoo...). > Each three-way TCP/IP connection to download an image file make the > page rendering slower. If most graphics were created with CSS, and > disn't need an external graphics file, it would load a lot faster, it > would load less the server and it would use less space or files on the > server as well. Think about all these graphics used for round corners, > for shadows, for gradients...If people change them from .png to .svg, > there will be little benefit, other than scalability (which is not > even always needed). You could use a data: URI to address that problem. There is another proposal for this, however: http://dbaron.org/css/css-vg/ -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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