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Re:Microsoft Power Fx – A low-code general purpose programmi... by beaconstudios on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:51AM (#26329026)
The problem is that SVG doesn't AFAIK support layout constraints - you'd have to essentially recreate flexbox and grid in JS, and God forbid you wanted to make the design responsive!

I agree with you in principle that SVG is a better match to app UIs, but we'd need a good layout story for that to happen. And I'm using SVG for much of my own application interface!

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Re:Microsoft Power Fx – A low-code general purpose programmi... by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @01:12PM (#26332265)
You should be able to use CSS (incl. grid, flex, etc) within an SVG context though.
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Re:Microsoft Power Fx – A low-code general purpose programmi... by beaconstudios on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @01:31PM (#26332487)
ideally, an SVG layout optimised for web app design would be somewhat more flexible than just grid and flex - such as anchoring an element to 2 other separate parents (or in other words, supporting a directed graph rather than a tree). A pure constraint system would be nice, but is probably not viable if fast rendering is important (which, it is).
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