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.

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