SVG has more potential

Re:SVG has more potential by igt0 on Monday September 26, 2016 @03:43PM (#12584925)

SVG is amazing, my main concern about it. it is because it creates a huge burden to browser developers. The spec is huge [1]. And some parts are outdated[2].

[1] https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/master/Source/WebCore/... [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animati...

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Re:SVG has more potential by amelius on Monday September 26, 2016 @03:56PM (#12585031)

> SVG is amazing, my main concern about it. it is because it creates a huge burden to browser developers.

Yes, it would have been better if SVG was designed on top of something simpler; and this something simpler could be implemented by browser developers. Probably, such an approach is more secure too. But, I guess it is too late now.

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Re:SVG has more potential by bobajeff on Monday September 26, 2016 @06:03PM (#12585992)

I imagine they could implement it on top of Canvas/WebGL.

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Re:SVG has more potential by josephcooney on Monday September 26, 2016 @07:58PM (#12586631)

Like https://github.com/canvg/canvg (which AFAIK doesn't do hit testing like 'real' SVG, but is a promising start).

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Re:SVG has more potential by legulere on Monday September 26, 2016 @04:51PM (#12585435)

Browser support is kind of okay. The problem is more that it is hardly supported outside of browsers because of the complexity

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Re:SVG has more potential by dietrichepp on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:55PM (#12587340)

To be fair, this is equally true of HTML.

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