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SVGs that feel like GIFs

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519 points cantdutchthis | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 08:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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unleaded ◴[08 Jul 25 16:34 UTC] No.44501635[source]▶
You can do a lot of impressive things with SVGs. Some examples from Wikipedia (no JS in any)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/SMIL_mis... missile command clone

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/London_U... tube map

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Rolling_... rolling shutter animation

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leonidasv ◴[08 Jul 25 16:45 UTC] No.44501713[source]▶
SVG started as an open competitor to Shockwave/Flash Player and also an application format for PDAs. It almost got networking support once.
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echelon ◴[08 Jul 25 17:00 UTC] No.44501865[source]▶
Too bad nothing has ever come close to replacing the SWF format.

You could pack so much into a single binary distributable media file. Games, videos, websites, infographics, tools, chat rooms.

SWF was brilliant and it should have thrived.

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1. qwertox ◴[08 Jul 25 17:56 UTC] No.44502399[source]▶
If it weren't for Adobe's crappy support of the player, I would agree, but they did much more harm than good with it. It was a massive attack surface and they didn't care about closing their zero-day drive-by exploits in a sensible timeframe.

Also they were basically the founders of persistent fingerprinting via Flash cookies.

So no, thank you, I'm more than happy it didn't thrive more than it already did.