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Nice things with SVG

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575 points fmerian | 6 comments | 12 Apr 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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rckt ◴[12 Apr 25 18:26 UTC] No.43666799[source]▶
SVG feels like a very underexplored and underused territory. You can do so many things with it. It really depends on your imagination. But you’ll possibly need to “hardcore” a lot of stuff, so yeah, depends on the use case as well.
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1. perilunar ◴[13 Apr 25 03:24 UTC] No.43669839[source]▶
One thing i'd like to see is an entire site built with SVG and JS without any HTML at all. It's possible but i haven't seen anyone do it yet.
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2. eMPee584 ◴[13 Apr 25 06:49 UTC] No.43670634[source]▶
so how can you know it's actually possible?
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3. perilunar ◴[13 Apr 25 07:55 UTC] No.43670944[source]▶
Browsers will render SVG files. SVG files can link to other SVG files. Just need to configure the server to serve SVG by default — most servers don't but it's an easy config change.
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4. perilunar ◴[13 Apr 25 12:17 UTC] No.43672217{3}[source]▶
Actually just found one, via an old stack overflow post. Only a three page test, but proves the point:

https://svg.nicubunu.ro

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5. pcthrowaway ◴[15 Apr 25 00:17 UTC] No.43687717{4}[source]▶
No javascript here though
6. efreak ◴[16 Apr 25 02:53 UTC] No.43700938[source]▶
I've used SVG in the past to work around limitations in css alignment (cloth before and after new layouts made it unnecessary--I don't write CSS enough to remember how they work, but adding text to a quick drawing in inkscape is fairly trivial)