> -----Original Message----- > From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of > Aryeh Gregor > Sent: 17 September 2009 00:46 > To: Wikimedia developers > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] > Usabilityinitiative(HotCatreplacement/improvements etc.) > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Daniel Schwen > <li...@schwen.de> wrote: > >> My personal prefered solution would be to have the icons > in SVG and > >> embed them directly into the page. But I guess that is not > acceptable > >> for the browser agnostic wikipedia audience. > > > > There are always data: urls, which would also save a roundtrip. But > > without some serverside support to automatically embed those this > > would create a maintenance nightmare. > > These icons are being added to the page by the software, so > automatic embedding is no problem. But IE doesn't support > data: before version 8. data: with SVG would avoid the extra > requests and latency, but then of course you don't get to do caching!
Caching is still possible, with SDCH compression but only Chromium/Chrome, and possibly IE with Google Toolbar, have implementations. > Web development is fun. No comment :) Jared _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
