Consider using SVGs for card images? about deckofcards

[crobertsbmw]

Thanks, I will definately look into this tomorrow.

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Adam Baxter [email protected]
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Posted as a HN comment but thought it might worth an issue -

SVG cards might reduce bandwidth use for you and clients -
https://code.google.com/p/vectorized-playing-cards/

For example, 8 of Clubs is:

28kb as a PNG.

14kb as an SVG (from above set)

4kb as a gzipped SVG

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[crobertsbmw]

I've been looking at these files. I haven't ever studied up on what SVG's even are until today. All the ones that I have downloaded from the link don't look like they are cropped correctly.

Someone else had this issue - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/03/inkscape-cropping-svg-files-on-the-command-line/

[harkmall]

Maybe have the option of choosing between PNG and SVG? Loading SVGs on iOS is really not fun :P

[theodorosD]

+1 for choosing between png and svg! Picaso image loader is a great tool, but useless with svgs.

Using the Accept: header would be a good way of switching between file
types. You could even render PNGs on the fly
On 13 May 2015 1:01 am, "Theodoros Delis" [email protected] wrote:

+1 for choosing between png and svg! Picaso image loader is a great tool,
but useless with svgs.

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[crobertsbmw]

Switching on the Accept header is foreign to me.
I don't really like the idea of listing multiple image urls as it just clutters the response. Would there be a way to make both image types available and without returning two image urls in the response?
I am starting to wonder if it would be easier to just switch back to PNG?

[harkmall]

Back to PNG! (Unless thats going to upset more people than it will please...)

Switching on the Accept: header would be the "RESTful" thing to do, you
could also use the file extension or a &format= parameter.

...or go back to PNG :P

On 13 May 2015 at 07:03, Chase Roberts [email protected] wrote:

Switching on the Accept header is foreign to me.
I don't really like the idea of listing multiple image urls as it just
clutters the response. Would there be a way to make both image types
available and without returning two image urls in the response?
I am starting to wonder if it would be easier to just switch back to PNG?

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[crobertsbmw]

I moved the default to PNG for now..
When I say it's foreign to me, what I mean is that I have no idea how to do it. What parameter should I look for in the accept header?

You'd look for a MIME type in the header, so the client would ask for
image/png or image/svg+xml
On 13 May 2015 8:39 am, "Chase Roberts" [email protected] wrote:

I moved the default to PNG for now..
When I say it's foreign to me, what I mean is that I have no idea how to
do it. What parameter should I look for in the accept header?

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[theodorosD]

Thanks for the PNG support!