On Wed, 2023-06-28 at 10:07 -0700, Marc Culler wrote:
>
> BOTTOM LINE: we get more than a 90% reduction in size simply by choosing to
> use the .svg extension when saving the plot instead of the .png extension.
>
SVG is the right choice for most graphics, but there are some practical
problems:
* The documentation needs to know how big to display an SVG graphic.
With a PNG, the default is to use the image's height/width in
pixels, but with SVG, there's no such obvious default.
* gzipped SVG doesn't work over the file:/// protocol in my firefox.
This hasn't been a big enough problem for me yet to diagnose it,
so I can't say how serious a problem it is. (I'll play around later
today.)
* Browser support in firefox/chrome alternatives still isn't great,
although I think webkit is getting a new SVG renderer "soon." This
is actually relevant more today than it was ten years ago, because
adding rust to firefox made it less portable, meaning you're
more likely to be stuck with one of those alternatives.
* Somebody's got to go through and look at 100MB of images to make
sure they still look right if we change 'em.
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