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Re:Are We Taking CSS Too Far? by metamemetics on Thursday August 19, 2010 @04:12AM (#1616804)
> the ability to do pure-CSS buttons and icons is a win.

CSS is not designed for assembly of vector graphics, we have SVG for that. SVG is a well defined and logical format for web vector graphics. The ideal case would be Firefox and IExplorer implement embedding SVG graphics with <img> to catch up with Opera\WebKit. Also since SVG is xml based any web app could also probably implement dynamic generation and cacheing for bizarre use cases.

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Re:Are We Taking CSS Too Far? by mike-cardwell on Thursday August 19, 2010 @05:04AM (#1616863)
I didn't realise Opera/Webkit would display SVG from an img tag! They don't execute the embedded javascript though, you need to use an object tag for that still.
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