Does anyone know if it's recommended to gzip your SVG icons?
I'm getting told by Google Page Speed service that turning this on could reduce the size of the icons by half, but I don't know if it would break things.
I've already got it on for the other files in the server, but the defaults seem to miss the icons (maybe because they don't have a file extension?)
Would turning your icons into a font using say Inkscape make things faster?
Probably, but this applies also to the colorful resource icons which don't have a good font alternative too.
h5bp does:
https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-apache/blob/master/.htaccess#L501
AFAIK as long as your mime-types are set correctly then the extension doesn't matter, but I don't know why a file wouldn't have an extension (other than executables)
I'm with Danny. I did not think the extension itself had an impact but more how it was compressed.
Julian
Thanks, that's good info.
By not having an extension I mean like:
https://moodle.org/theme/image.php/moodleofficial/mod_forum/1385121489/icon
Which the server decides whether to send as SVG or PNG (or GIF) and sets the mimetype appropriately.
It turns out our live servers already have gzip turned on for SVG anyway, it was only the test server that was set up differently. So it all seems to have been working fine for the last year or so.
cheers,
dave