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SVG Inline November 2015

I have been going through a lot of my site pages removing the PNG files (though not strictly removing as I have moved them to links in many cases and not img files) and replacing them with inline SVG - the pages now are super fast to load and the pages are fairly light as well and also a lot more colourful and also it gives me a chance to play with a lot of different graphic ideas. So a total win / win

OK, or so you would think.


Looking at the stats for the site (and I have only recently added a package to look at those) I noticed for the first time that there are a lot of people visiting my site (http://www.graphicxtras.com  ) using really old browsers and probably old browsers that don't support inline SVG. MSIE 10 supports SVG but at the same time it does a little bit of hash when it comes to the size / width / height of the inline SVG. Chrome and Safari and Firefox etc do a lot better job.


Examples being Internet explorer 4 or 5 / Netscape / Chrome  14 / Firefox 2.0.0.13 / Opera 7.50 / Safari 1.2.4 / Chrome 4.0.249.11 / Firebird (Old Firefox) / Sony/Ericsson Browser / Msie 5.0 or so .. as well as a lot of visitors using Windows 98 and NT and Windows Vista and MAC OS X 10.4 etc as well as a lot of OS I have hardly heard of and also browsers I am only sort of familiar with. Really staggering. I always try and update fairly soon after any update and keep with the latest versions so it is hard to understand why so many are on so old browsers and OS


Of course they are probably hundreds of reasons such as why I still see so many computers around hospitals etc that are using windows XP etc but I guess in different countries (I have a lot of visits from outside of the UK and US) so perhaps they are not using the most up to date machines or OS. Or perhaps they are just old servers, or robots (?). Still, it did shock me a little.


It does mean that a lot of people probably see my site (about 50% of visitors) as mainly text which is no real problem but if you are coming to the site for the graphics - you probably won't see as much. I think you can get a little bogged down worrying about supporting or setting up fallbacks - though I might be losing a few customers in the process, I just hope not too many.


Hopefully over time people will get the latest OS and browsers and will move up to Windows 10 / Windows 11 / Windows 12 / Mac OS X 10.12 10.13 etc as well as Microsoft Edge and Chrome 36 / Safari 10 etc and then the support for SVG will be there and all the graphics will look good on 4K screens as well as 8K screens or whatever comes along. Surely it is a good idea to keep your browsers etc up to date (if not the OS though I must admit to be a little despairing when it comes to Windows 10 - I still prefer Windows 8.1)


Some of the pages such as for brushes are still very much raster based but even there many of the sets included EPS files so I will be adding more vector images on those as well but there will always be more PNG etc files for those than the shapes and fonts pages.


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