Re: SVG paths vs. Flash paths (Re: XML and Vectors)

It is my impression that people like SVG (see for example a recent article
in webmonkey at wired.com) is because it's OPEN and directly editable...It's
not an issue (for me at least) of saving a few bytes.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>
To: Jon Ferraiolo <jferraio@Adobe.COM>
Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 12:16 PM
Subject: SVG paths vs. Flash paths (Re: XML and Vectors)


>Jon Ferraiolo wrote:
>>Regarding file sizes, the SVG working group is paying close attention to
>>this issue. A key point to remember is that modern Web servers and browser
>>support gzip compression of Web content. gzip compression does a great job
>>of shrinking down XML grammars (up to 10:1 compression).
>
>fwiw, I recently made some experiments using an instrumented
>flash decoder.  I've focussed on the vector data representation
>(as the spec says, "many SVG files will be dominated by their path
>data"), and it looks like zip-compressed SVG path data is about the
>same size as the corresponding *uncompressed* Flash shapes.
>
>> In many cases, SVG files compressed with gzip with be of
>> comparable size with a corresponding Flash file.
>
>On the other hand, most Flash files also get smaller if you
>compress them...
>
>Anyway, I plan to run these tests on a larger set of sample files
>this weekend.  Stay tuned.
>
>Cheers /F
>fredrik@pythonware.com
>http://www.pythonware.com
>
>

Received on Thursday, 11 March 1999 07:17:37 UTC