That looks like a cool idea. I am trying to experiment it on a few pages, and it seems to considerably reduce the number of web requests (for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh it goes from 120 to under 40 requests).
But the pages get quite bigger, obviously. Also, it introduces a caching issue for images... Still, pretty cool. 2013/4/22 Mathias Schindler <mathias.schind...@gmail.com> > Hi everyone, > > Magnus was very kind to implement an idea that consists of two parts: > > 1. use of WebP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP) instead of PNG/JPEG > for thumbnails in Wikipedia articles > 2. use of Data-URIs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme) to > inline incluse those thumbnails. > > The experiment can be watched using Chrome and Opera browsers at > > http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wp_data_url.php?lang=en&title=Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer&webp=1 > > Firefox and other Data-URI capable but currently WebP incapable > browsers can watch the second part of the experiment at > > http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wp_data_url.php?lang=en&title=Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer > > Base64 encoding has a ~1/3 overhead. This overhead is reduced when the > server sends out gzip files. > > Mathias > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
