This should not be happening after the svg optimizations. The map is now inlined in CSS and no longer downloaded separately.

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(In reply to Niklas Laxström from comment #1)

This should not be happening after the svg optimizations.

Well, it does.

I also confirm on http://dev.translatewiki.net/ with Firefox 27.0.1, but I can't find the map in ctrl-I media (no such SVG or data:image resource) nor inspect.

From what we have observed with users (and seems to be backed by usage numbers), the flexible search for languages works quite well to the point that the map is very marginally used as an entry point for language selection in practice.

So, I support removing the map for simplicity, and to clearly communicate that search is our main entry point.

More details and the updated designs were captured in this card: https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/language_engineering/cards/4017

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I was confused because all the resources have a base64 hash with identical beginning. I see in Ctrl-I: SVG+XML Image, size: "Unknown (not cached)", "226px × 110px"

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Found the rule in question, had to scroll more.

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No objection in over two weeks, it seems we're ready to go.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2014-March/000827.html

I have reopened T85519 because it addresses a bigger scope. Thanks.