- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 21:34:01 +0200
- To: Philip Rogers <pdr@google.com>, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
- CC: "www-svg@w3.org" <www-svg@w3.org>
Hello Philip, A quick comment on something you mentioned in passing: Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 8:20:36 PM, Philip Rogers wrote: > The SVG path syntax is pretty difficult to use (IIRC it was > designed before gzip which is why it uses one-character commands) That is incorrect. It was designed both to be short when sent without compression, and also short(er) when used with gzip; SVG 1.0 mandated that implementations support gzip which was unusual back then. Of course, it compresses better with new compression methods such as Brotli. Since path data forms the bulk of most SVG illustrations and since it was competing with binary formats such as Flash, shortness was considered very important for SVG to be competitive. -- Best regards, Chris Lilley Technical Director, W3C Interaction Domain
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