Xara Web Designer - vector-only export

[ksta]

Hi,

Many thanks both! With your collective advice I've considerably improved performance.

vectors for a browser means SVG
these are still not fully supported in all browsers

Yes, SVG is what I meant by vectors in HTML. I'm interested to know what browsers you refer to - caniuse.com seems to only indicate IE as being problematic (at least to the latest release, 1.1), and as it is now deprecated software that surely shouldn't hold back Xara development?

@ksta, have you perhaps Grouped items together as this will produce bitmaps over Font Glyphs and CSS.

it might be better to optimise your bitmaps

This helped a lot - excellent! The files output reduced from over 4000 to 200. The website now loads much quicker and does not aggregate object drawing. Still not ideal but much better.
I guess I'm not saying there isn't a use case for rasterized graphics in websites, but that it seems strange on behalf of Xara to not provide an option for SVG website export. They already have the filer (though somewhat primitive compared to other image export) and outstanding general vector editing capabilities, so surely it shouldn't be hard to implement...

We have asked Xara to address the overuse of bitmaps.

Hopefully one day they'll respond! I'll post this request to Dear Xara, in the hope that they'll pick up on it. In the mean time, if anyone knows any workarounds I'd be keen to give them a go.

Thanks again!

[handrawn]

as it says in your link, the support for SVG in browsers is still only basic - so it is limited with regard to what SVG's are capable of

SVG'a are very good for flat colour graphics; no good at all for photographic images of course...

[Egg Bramhill]

KSTA perhaps you could attach an example xar/web file so we could suggest ways of improving the publish sites content?

@ HD:

SVG'a are very good for flat colour graphics

SVG's can do more than this, they're not limited to flat colours.

[handrawn]

you the expeert egg - how much support is there for gradient and transparency in a browser ?

[Egg Bramhill]

Excellent HD. Here's a couple of gradiant fills.

LINK

[handrawn]

good to know egg, thanks