FlameGraph [1] renders profiling results into svg. Profile is essentially hierarchical; a user can zoom into subtree by clicking an element. Probably not an inspiring use of script in svg; but boy, how handy this feature is!

https://gist.githack.com/mejedi/90eac4f11f794f43808f90e38b1a...

[1] http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html

Here's a full-on dice roller / Virtual Tabletop that takes advantage of this: https://github.com/sjbrown/togetherness

Tetris in an SVG?!? I am in awe.

I'm feeling equal parts: "this is beautiful", "this is perverse", and "I want to do this too"

Cool? Take a look at this: https://www.scriptol.fr/xml/code/invaders.svg

It seems like the French have a passion for dynamic SVGs.

Space Invaders! Amazing!

Is that an example of SVG including a script tag or just manipulating the SVG DOM through javascript? I think that's 2 separate concerns. Browsers already understand both, I think the article puts it under "The Bad" category because if you're building a renderer from scratch, you'd need to also handle javascript and DOM stuff.

Wow. I'm unsure whether I should be impressed or horrified. I've added the link to the article, thank you.

I'm both

Less impressively, a clock: https://www.nayuki.io/res/full-screen-clock-javascript/full-... (50 lines of code)

I liked this one, hiding on wikipedia:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Morphing...

A morphing digital clock

Oh man. Way back in the long long ago I worked at Adobe. I was a test engineer on the SVG <script> tag, mostly making sure that the DOM methods all worked properly. Lots and lots of interesting micro-projects there.

The one I was proudest of was a 3d chemical viewer where you could grab the molecule and spin it. SVG was only used because it was convenient to do the visualization. All of the 3d transforms were done in Javascript. But to have Javascript that could fluidly spin a 3d model was pretty amazing in 2000.

Cool, thanks for sharing!

FYI, the OP posted an update with a reply to you:

> This article was posted on Hacker News... > In the comments there somebody mentioned an interesting use of the <script> tag in SVG. I’m unsure though whether I should be impressed or horrified :D

Wow this is super amazing (and little horrifying). Never knew SVG can contain Javascript. Always thought of it as just a little safe vector graphics markup.