It's just the fact that you're already serving compressed content from a web server, you're adding more overhead to the client who has to inflate and then also interpret the compressed svgz file. I can't imagine that your svg files take up so much space on your server that storing them as svgz saves you anything more than a few MB. You aren't suffering anything when it comes to transfers because your content will be gzipped on the fly. svgz is just adding unneeded overhead, that's all. Continue to use it at your descretion, there's nothing inherently wrong with it... I just don't see the point in using it.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM, cremnosedum <rich...@pixelpalaces.com>wrote: > ** > > > Hi, > > Marty Sullivan has claimed that it's better to put SVG's on your website > as SVG rather than SVGZ. I've yet to hear that from anybody else so I'd > like to know the opinion of others on this. > > There is a third option, particularly if you have multiple simiar files > (as is likely with a web comic). That is to us a CGI script to generate SVG > on the fly and serve it. This would allow a certain amoung of server space > saving as you only have to have one copy of the repeated bits. It also > makes it easyer to change the repeated bits. (Of course you can use > external css and js files and should be able to access parts from other SVG > files but I don't think this is widely supported and including SVG(Z) files > in image elements doesn't allow their external files or their interactivity > and animation to work.) How does this compare to using SVG or SVGZ? > > I suppose there's also SVG web. Is that still alive? I've looked at it but > it had serious limitations. > > Any other ways to serve SVG pictures? > > Richard Pearman http://www.pixelpalaces.com/ > The next stage in the evolution of web comics: > http://www.onlinecomics.net/pages/details/listing.php?comicID=4415 > Read my Helium articles: http://www.helium.com/users/212199 > South Alberta Cactus and succulent society: > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20360241008 > Make money from discussing things: http://www.myLot.com?ref=Graptopetalum > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: svg-developers-dig...@yahoogroups.com svg-developers-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
