Whoa, nice find. Thanks Ismael!

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Josh Carpenter
UX Designer, FxOS
Mozilla

On Oct 4, 2012, at 1:03 AM, Ismael González wrote:

> There is a great MacOSX application, http://imageoptim.com/ that compress 
> images without loss.
> 
> --
> Ismael González / @basiclines
> 
> El jueves, 4 de octubre de 2012 a las 08:46, Josh Carpenter escribió:
> 
>> 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
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