Hi Archie,
Archie Cobbs wrote:
TJ Teegan wrote:
[..] you can take a loaded SVGDocument and write the DOM as a String. Then you can use the Deflater class in java.util.zip to compress it into a relatively small byte[]. To load it, use the Inflater class in java.util.zip and create a Document similar to the examples at http://xml.apache.org/batik/domapi.html#creating
Along these lines, I didn't realize this at first but JSVGCanvas is perfectly happy loading an URL that points to a gzip'd SVG file. E.g., setURL("http://foo.com/myfile.svg.gz";).
Yes, this is part of the SVG specification. The proper file extension for this is 'svgz'.
We've found that compresing the files makes load times a lot faster, because a nontrivial amount of time was spent just downloading the file over the net. Of course, SVG files compress very well, e.g. 90%.
Yes, with gzip compression SVG files compare favorably with many traditional binary vector formats.
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