Svgs are cool, but icon fonts are just 10% of their file size

Re:Svgs are cool, but icon fonts are just 10% of their file ... by FireBeyond on Thursday October 04, 2012 @12:13PM (#4613006)

SVGs are XML, which can be compressed transparently by the web server using GZip, which from my reading on the web typically gets around 70-80% compression on XML files, thus reducing the deficit fairly heavily.

Also, that first comparison chart? "Most browsers don't support the full SVG featureset" - Firefox 3.1, Chrome 1.0, Safari 3.2?

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Re:Svgs are cool, but icon fonts are just 10% of their file ... by alz on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @04:32AM (#4630557)

here is a followup post comparing gzipped versions: http://blog.pictonic.co/post/33163844823/icon-fonts-vs-svgs-...

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Re:Svgs are cool, but icon fonts are just 10% of their file ... by alz on Thursday October 04, 2012 @12:24PM (#4613052)

this is true, although even when gzipped svgs are typically about double the size of ttfs

re browsers, yea none of them passed 100% of the tests, but admittedly that chart is about 10 months old

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