SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Re:SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by wtetzner on Friday February 12, 2021 @01:39PM (#26116919)

Except that's not what happened. They also had to define new syntax for the DSLs they embed in strings.

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Re:SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by pwdisswordfish6 on Friday February 12, 2021 @01:47PM (#26117005)

True. But it would have been much harder if they had to define a syntax for the entire document.

I imagine they thought that the path DSL is simple enough to parse (and I seem to vaguely recall PostScript has something similar), while the overhead of representing path nodes as XML elements would be too high.

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Re:SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by wtetzner on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:24PM (#26117504)

I'm not arguing against using an existing format, BTW, just seems like a weird mixture here.

I can't help but think s-expressions would have been a better choice.

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