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["Nicholas Roy" <nroy AT internet2.edu>]

On 13 Mar 2020, at 10:14, Leif Johansson wrote:

> On 2020-03-13 14:58, Nicholas Roy wrote:
>> This is likely to be something InCommon does in the future, as well, since 
>> we already use a very nice CDN for our MDQ service. Just makes sense to 
>> fetch everyone’s logos periodically, cache them in S3 and make the logo 
>> URLs point at our CDN fronting S3.
>>
>
> seamlessaccess.org runs software that does this - we're still playing 
> around a bit with
> what the best cut-off size is (there are logos that are simply too large to 
> fetch in
> practice).

Yet another reason for an eduGAIN / REFEDS-level logo standard.

PNGs of 400x400px max 40KB
SVGs preferred, again max 40KB

>
>       Cheers Leif
>
>> Nick
>>
>> On 13 Mar 2020, at 3:28, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>>
>>> Op 13-03-2020 om 10:23 schreef Guy Halse:
>>>> I have considered an alternative, which I may implement in future --
>>>> rather than converting them to data: URLS, we could cache them and make
>>>> them available via https:// from our own CDN (thus replacing the original
>>>> URL with a new https:// one).
>>>
>>> This is what we do, FWIW. All our logos come from a single domain, which
>>> makes it also much faster to fetch many of them in one go for browsers.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thijs

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