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		ajconway on June 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IconVG is a compact, binary format for simple vect... There's not a single perfect format for everything, so why not?

makapuf on June 5, 2021 [–]

I understand there might be specificities for encoding but there coukd be some efforts to share some compression. By example png use gzip, we could let the browser sort it out and let it use brotli?

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