Re: "Internationalization Support" and "Minimizing SVG File Sizes" appendices

(You know it's that table of file size comparisons in the appendix that 
really grates.)

Helder Magalhães:
> Regarding the "Minimizing SVG File Sizes", although it's a spec. and
> not a best practices document, I still see commonly that SVG content
> is generally not optimized, which unfortunately leads to the common
> idea that it is an inefficient format.
>
> I'd suggest keep this one around, maybe even improving it a bit, at
> least until best practices are seen deployed more widely. As an
> alternative, we could make sure the information is sufficiently
> exposed (for example, by moving it to the Primer [1]) and then adding
> an informative reference to it.

I think having that kind of information in the SVG Primer, or even a 
blog post somewhere, would be better than in the spec.  My impression is 
that the appendix was originally included to counter complaints that SVG 
documents were too big.  I don't think we're in the position now where 
we have people complaining about that.

And I'd imagine that most servers are automatically gzipping content for 
transfer anyway, these days.

Received on Wednesday, 22 August 2012 01:02:38 UTC