From my understanding,
The SVGZ is a compressed file type of an SVG. I love using SVG images and have had a lot of experience with them.
All of the times I used them I have never had a graphic that went over a few hundred kilobytes.
I use SVG for responsive graphics while making responsive websites. I also use them since my favorite design style is vector based graphics. My strongest design strength is illustrator, especially when it comes to graphic design.
The other reason I would use an SVG graphic is due to the ease of animating certain elements of the graphic, like arms, legs, etc.
Especially background elements, like a city to span across the entire page while I animate some flickering of lights and so on.
If the file is compressed, would it lose the SVG code so I couldn't animate it?
Is there any reason I should use an SVGZ over just an SVG?
Update
Well I decided to just make an SVG and SVGZ to see how they acted with the web since I found out my works ancient CS3 can save SVGZ!
After testing I ran into a very unexpected problem with the SVGZ file type. (Tested on Chrome, Firefox, and IE) If you go to the direct URL of the image you get an error. I am assuming you can't access the SVG code on these files types but after making a fiddle it doesn't even seem to display the image.
Are these useless for the web?
.svgz
to be served up using the right MIME type, see stackoverflow.com/questions/16725380/svgz-doesnt-display . Personally I always use Raphael.js for SVG/vector graphics on the web because I need IE8 support – user56reinstatemonica8 Nov 20 '13 at 18:35SVGZ
? I thought maybe it would be nice to cut down on an image file size. I am just curious whether or not anSVGZ
is in any way useful for the web or really useful in any way. – Josh Powell Nov 20 '13 at 18:40z
means gzip compression which is used to cut down file size and pretty much nothing else. – user56reinstatemonica8 Nov 20 '13 at 18:46