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RE: XML / HTML Transport size

• To: <robin.berjon@e...>
• Subject: RE: XML / HTML Transport size
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:39:10 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <3DD911C1.6020003@e...>

>Better than that, unless I am mistaken the SVG spec *requires* from
>conformant clients that they support gzip compression. While it may seem
>unimportant, this single point is what makes all of Macromedia's
>delirious FUDing about SVG file size moot, as gzip'd SVG documents
>implementing typical Flash examples consistently come out at worst at
>the same size as their Flash counterpart, usually 30% smaller.

You are quite right, I should have checked, allows/requires is a significant
difference - relevant section quoted below. This appears in SVG 1.0, 1.1 and
no modification is suggested for 1.2.

> > Although SVG is a graphics format, it has characteristics that make a
> > .svgz file a lot more interesting than most compressed image formats,
> > through the XML data and the ability to include interactive/executable
> > code.
>
>And a *lot* more than that! SVG brings joy into the home! It shines and
>it moves! It puts a rose in every cheek!

Indeed it does!!!!!

Cheers,
Danny.

from
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/conform.html#ConformingSVGViewers

[[[SVG implementations which support the HTTP protocol must correctly
support gzip-encoded SVG data streams according to the HTTP 1.1
specification [RFC2616]; thus, the client must specify "Accept-Encoding:
gzip" [HTTP-ACCEPT-ENCODING] on its request-header field and then decompress
any gzip-encoded data streams that are downloaded from the server. If the
implementation supports progressive rendering, the implementation should
also support progressive rendering of compressed data streams. ]]]

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