Remove xlink:href

[benkasminbullock]

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[edent]

OK - this looks good. But I think you can go one step further and remove xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" from each file as well. That'll save even more space.

[PaulCapron]

Caution: it’s only in SVG 2 that a ‘naked’ href attribute can be used, instead of xlink:href.

Most browsers do support SVG 2, but many other programs do not (yet).

For instance, here is how the modified (using a naked href) Amazon S3 logo is seen, badly, by Ubuntu/Gnome image viewer:

Similarly, Inkscape (v0.92.5) does not properly understand a naked href.

[PaulCapron]

Note that the http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink namespace can be ‘nicknamed’ as anything, it isn’t required to be xlink.

I.e.:

<svg … xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <use x:href="…"/>

is perfectly valid. Here http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink is ‘nicknamed’/referenced as simply x.

And that would save a couple bytes, without impacting compatibility with programs understanding only SVG 1.