Whoa, nice find. Thanks Ismael! — 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-gaia mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
