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Start your free trialAakash Srivastav
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 PointsSprite Map
What he is doing? He is not describing anything at all? I didn't get anything :(
1 Answer
Hakim Rachidi
38,490 PointsWhat Nick did
First he combined all svg into one single svg container
this saves the opening and closing svg tags (not much but it saves a little bandwidth)
Then he put this big svg element into every html document
this saves a little bit of bandwidth (no extra HTTP request), but it cost much more memory because the svgs are implemented for every site which is not efficient
Finally he removed the svgs out of the svg element which are not used for this site
this is memory efficient
In the html doc he used:
<svg>
<use xlink:href="#twitter" />
</svg>
The svg element indicates that this is an svg. The use element looks for a svg that is already used with the specified class in a symbol element inside of a svg element;
Nicholas Wallen
12,278 PointsNicholas Wallen
12,278 PointsYes, but if there is a pre-existing course which we should be taking prior to this which explains all the syntax behind SVGs, then he should state that. Within this track, this video has zero context.