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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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exabrial ◴[08 Jul 25 18:30 UTC] No.44502683[source]▶

I freakin love SVG. Someday I hope we just end up with a browser standard:

* pluggable execution engine/memory model (WASM, JVM, CLR, etc)

* SVG output (binary or text)

From there, the developer can choose whatever model he wants to display a "page", no longer be limited to the Document Object Model.

1. socalgal2 ◴[08 Jul 25 21:50 UTC] No.44504372[source]▶

The DOM (HTML) has the advantage that it's designed to be responsive to different displays. SVG is not

SVGs that feel like GIFs