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SVGs that feel like GIFs

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519 points cantdutchthis | 3 comments | 08 Jul 25 08:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.581s | source
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oblio ◴[08 Jul 25 16:55 UTC] No.44501802[source]▶
SVG is another proof of worse is better. Nothing should be animated via JavaScript, at least not imperatively.
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0x457 ◴[08 Jul 25 17:33 UTC] No.44502190[source]▶
but SVG embeds ECMAScript...
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1. oblio ◴[08 Jul 25 17:38 UTC] No.44502238[source]▶
Fairly sure there are SVG subsets that can be used. Not all of them embed JS.

And that wasn't my point. SVG supports animation primitives. No need to animate through JS.

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2. 0x457 ◴[08 Jul 25 20:18 UTC] No.44503687[source]▶
You're confusing language and runtime environment. SVG lets you use ecmascript of some version in its <script> tags, it obviously doesn't provide browser api available to you from javascript in a browser.
3. deathanatos ◴[08 Jul 25 20:32 UTC] No.44503799[source]▶
> And that wasn't my point. SVG supports animation primitives. No need to animate through JS.

This isn't (AFAICT) animated via JS. (It's animated by a CSS animation, inside the SVG. TFA is wrong about the <animate> tag being what is leveraged.)