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albert_e ◴[25 Jun 25 05:09 UTC] No.44373786[source]▶
So animated GIFs can be replaced by Animated PNGs with alpha blending with transparent backgrounds and lossless compression! Some nostalgia from 2000s websites can be revived and relived :)

Curious if Animated SVGs are also a thing. I remember seeing some Javascript based SVG animations (it was a animated chatbot avatar) - but not sure if there is any standard framework.

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andsoitis ◴[25 Jun 25 05:14 UTC] No.44373806[source]▶
> Curious if Animated SVGs are also a thing.

Yes. Relevant animation elements:

• <set>

• <animate>

• <animateTransform>

• <animateMotion>

See https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/svg_animation.asp

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1. mattigames ◴[25 Jun 25 05:37 UTC] No.44373932[source]▶
Overshadowed by CSS animations for almost all use cases.
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2. lawik ◴[25 Jun 25 05:54 UTC] No.44374011[source]▶
But animated gradient outlines on text is the only use-case I care about.
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3. mattigames ◴[25 Jun 25 11:18 UTC] No.44375962[source]▶
"Use case" is written without hyphen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case
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4. fkyoureadthedoc ◴[25 Jun 25 13:25 UTC] No.44377078{3}[source]▶
I have to differentiate myself from LLMs by using words wrong though
5. WorldMaker ◴[25 Jun 25 17:20 UTC] No.44379726{3}[source]▶
Hyphenation of multi-word nouns is a process in English that usually happens after some time of usage as separate words. It often happens before eventually merger into a single compound word noun. Such as: "Electronic Mail" to "E Mail" to "e-mail" to "email".

Given how often it is used as a jargon term in software development, I can absolutely see this usage of "use-case" here as a "vote" for the next step in the process. Will we eventually see "usecase" become common? It's possible. I think it might even be a good idea. I'm debating adding my own "votes" for the hyphen moving forward.

6. account42 ◴[26 Jun 25 09:23 UTC] No.44385632[source]▶
*in browsers

Most other SVG renderers don't support much CSS.