I am not proposing using gzipped svg for a normal sage build. I only want to do it for the Sage_macOS app, which will have a simple self-contained server running on the loopback interface that provides gzipped content (with the Content-Encoding header set to "gzip"). Of course I would be happy to work on incorporating the same mechanism in a standard build of Sage, and that would reduce the footprint of the documentation considerably. But in the short term, for the macOS binary, I need to be able to find the magic switch which makes sage_docbuild use svg instead of png.
I don't know how much of a problem the image size will pose. There are some svg images already in the documentation, which seem to work, but I hadn't gotten to the stage of worrying about that yet. - Marc On Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 12:50:31 PM UTC-5 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/f94addf4-4bce-4f97-b79d-34a003eee1f9n%40googlegroups.com.
