On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:32:46 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:45:45 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
I'm really glad he brought this up - this is something I too have felt similarly about.
I have felt that the best approach for us would be to use SVG as the originating syntax, but render to png or bmp, and load those. From my perspective the benefit would be in load times; I think they'd have other benefits as well.
Actually the main problem is that icons have to be redrawn for small sizes. It doesn't matter when or with what you do the scaling, SVGs generally just don't scale well to 16x16 type sizes. Jimmac seems these days to draw icons by hand in the Gimp for small sizes, and then provide an SVG as well for larger sizes.
IMHO the problem is that SVG does not support hinting like TrueType fonts do.
Regards, Helge