On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> wrote: >> My personal prefered solution would be to have the icons in SVG and >> embed them directly into the page. But I guess that is not acceptable >> for the browser agnostic wikipedia audience. > > There are always data: urls, which would also save a roundtrip. But > without some serverside support to automatically embed those this > would create a maintenance nightmare.
These icons are being added to the page by the software, so automatic embedding is no problem. But IE doesn't support data: before version 8. data: with SVG would avoid the extra requests and latency, but then of course you don't get to do caching! Web development is fun. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
