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SVGs that feel like GIFs

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518 points cantdutchthis | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 08:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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layer8 ◴[08 Jul 25 16:33 UTC] No.44501626[source]▶
What does “Github supports these” mean here? Isn’t it the browser that has to support them?
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c-hendricks ◴[08 Jul 25 16:39 UTC] No.44501670[source]▶
Github could (should) be doing some sanitation of the HTML included in the readme, so they absolutely could be removing some nasty things SVGs support
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layer8 ◴[08 Jul 25 16:51 UTC] No.44501773[source]▶
But it’s just an image link to some SVG file. No HTML involved, only a Markdown image link that GitHub will render as an HTML <img src="…"/> element. The actual SVG file linked to isn’t even necessarily hosted by GitHub.
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1. sweetgiorni ◴[08 Jul 25 23:41 UTC] No.44505009[source]▶
If the SVG being linked to is hosted by GitHub, they could make arbitrary changes before serving it to the browser. IIRC, I uploaded an SVG in a GitHub comment and the resulting image had some of its interactive functionality removed. Of course, that situation is slightly different since the file was uploaded in a comment and not as part of a Git repo... but still.