Talk:WikiProject Chess

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[edit] SVG images

How about switching from PNG to SVG images? PLEASE NOTE: these are shown larger (90px) than the default size (45px) to show detail!

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Before I create all of them, I wanted to get feedback on the idea. The files themselves are about twice as big but I see three distinct advantages:

1. size of the board & pieces can scale without problem (as shown above)
2. SVGs are rendered as PNGs so as an end-user there is no difference
3. SVG-based generated PNGs seem to be smaller than the current PNGs

Feedback please! :) If I forget to respond (I seem to rarely visit meta wiki), I'd appreciate a reminder on en:User talk:Cburnett. Cburnett 02:28, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Using SVG sounds like fantastic idea; I'm surprised there has been no feedback. Are the SVG-based generated PNGs cached? John Vandenberg 05:45, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Quite. There are numerous advantages, the biggest of which is of course that you'll only need one set of images for all sizes. The only disadvantage would be speed of drawing, if SVGs render slower (unlikely at this complexity) or are not cached as well (probably likely). Jdorje 17:41, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Also there appear to be 86 pieces available on the standard chess template. You'd have to replace all of these to get a replacement setup IMO. Jdorje 18:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah yes: and then for a 5-minute mockup, seen here. It appears at the 26-pixel size many of the SVG images render poorly. Given the roughness of the rendering I wonder if this isn't an error in the renderer. Jdorje 19:39, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps is is necessary to have the nominal image size the same as the size to be displayed?--HereToHelp (talk) 23:09, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, SVGs tend to look a little aliasy when thin lines are rendered at small resolutions. I think SVG is definitely the way to go though. I didn't realize someone had already created these chess pieces... I was about to do so myself. If you want help implementing them in the Chess templates, let me know! -- 74.14.101.229 18:06, 21 May 2008 (UTC)