Nico Brünjes works as webdeveloper at german newswebsite ZEIT ONLINE in Hamburg since 2006 and leads the frontend team for several years now. You can follow him on Twitter.
Using external SVG sprite maps to deliver lossless scalable vector images is widely used in responsive web design today and well-supported by tools like svg4everybody. At German newspaper Zeit Online, we embraced this technique quite a lot. However, we recently changed this workflow back to completely inlining the SVG into the HTML owing to a bug in Apple’s Safari browsers– the same way GitHub is doing with its octicons.
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