Re:SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by PaulHoule on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:47AM
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Mostly.
That is the most prominent tool one would use to apply "programming" or "architectural" discipline to SVG.
For instance you could make a <g> that looks like a cat paw and then <use> it to make a track of cat paws. That's more disciplined then say, "cut-n-paste" a cat paw you drew 10 times which a real artist might do, or I might do because I can always figure out how to do it with a drawing program.
Related to that is the use of CSS, which can range from beautiful code which is easy to understand towards a complete mess.
That is the most prominent tool one would use to apply "programming" or "architectural" discipline to SVG.
For instance you could make a <g> that looks like a cat paw and then <use> it to make a track of cat paws. That's more disciplined then say, "cut-n-paste" a cat paw you drew 10 times which a real artist might do, or I might do because I can always figure out how to do it with a drawing program.
Related to that is the use of CSS, which can range from beautiful code which is easy to understand towards a complete mess.