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Re:Web Graphics Done Right by Filligree on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:43PM (#21184475)
The parent is correct. At some point we gained a fear of binary formats, but binary formats are still the only way to transfer data efficiently.

Yes, flash had other problems. No, this doesn't make their point false.

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Re:Web Graphics Done Right by deafcalculus on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:43PM (#21184479)
Is that really true with gzipping?
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Re:Web Graphics Done Right by gnud on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:51PM (#21184546)
Browsers still need to unzip and parse the SVG, and store the DOM representation of it.
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