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unleaded ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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unleaded ◴[] No.44502006[source]
absolutely. really is strange that you used to be able to download a music video in less than 2-3mb with lossless video quality, but now that's not really a thing anymore. I feel like if Adobe didn't get greedy and encourage its use for absolutely everything (and/or web standards got up to speed faster) people wouldn't wouldn't approach talking about Flash with the 10-foot pole they often do today (as a platform—not how everyone talks about how much they loved flash games)
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mxfh ◴[] No.44503523[source]
What do you mean? Lossless animations with a soundtrack or some embeded video?

This is 570k and runs in a webassembly runtime:

https://archive.org/details/flash_badger

SVG could do that too. Minimal javascript plus audio tags.

http://xn--dahlstrm-t4a.net/svg/audio/html5-audio-in-svg.svg

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1. unleaded ◴[] No.44503853[source]
>badger.swf

yes stuff like that & the IOSYS MVs. you technically can do stuff like that today theres nothing stopping you from doing it with svgs but i meant more the social part of it. its just interesting that if you want to do the same thing (put an animated video on the inernet) the usual way its now 10x bigger yet looks worse.

also i dont think theres anything like Flash (the authoring software) but for SVGs. i hope there is one but for now I wouldnt say inkscape + a text editor counts