Is there anything UX can be doing to assist at time of graphics creation? — Josh Carpenter UX Designer, FxOS Mozilla
On Oct 3, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Gabriele Svelto wrote: > Hello all, > yesterday while browsing bugs I stumbled upon this one suggesting to > re-compress (without quality loss) the images in Firefox to reduce the > installer size: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631392 > > I've followed a simpler procedure by recompressing all PNG files in the gaia > directory with a 'optipng -o9 --strip all' command followed by 'advpng -4 -z' > then rebuilt the project. The resulting userdata.img file had shrunk by > ~1.7MiB or roughly ~4%. > > Since the improvement is small but non-trivial I wanted to hear if there was > interest into applying this kind of re-compression to our assets. I haven't > opened a ticket on this topic but if there's interest I'll do it; I guess > this should include adding a properly written script for re-compressing files > and documentation in Gaia's MDN pages on how to use it and what workflow to > follow when adding new images or modifying existing ones. Alternatively one > could image adding a compression step at build-time but this could > significantly slow down the build process as well as add more tools to the > build dependencies. > > Gabriele > _______________________________________________ > dev-gaia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
