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Re:HTML is a native image format, hear me out by yeargun on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:51AM (#48489647)
yes but not every image/visual is efficiently representable with svgs. sometimes we need rasters
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Re:HTML is a native image format, hear me out by voidUpdate on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:59AM (#48489738)
Luckily, you can embed raster images inside SVGs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...
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Re:HTML is a native image format, hear me out by yeargun on Thursday June 11, 2026 @09:44AM (#48490263)
yeah but you know.. it needs to be either base64 or a link

thats why .hmml is a packing strategy to mitigate that, single pack

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