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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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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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bawolff ◴[08 Jul 25 19:49 UTC] No.44503397[source]▶
> It almost got networking support once.

SVG support full javascript. It has networking support.

(In web browsers the <img> tag allows only restricted subset, butbyou get the full thing with iframe)

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ameliaquining ◴[08 Jul 25 22:16 UTC] No.44504531[source]▶
I think the above comment refers to the proposal for SVG 1.2 (which never shipped) to include an API for opening raw network sockets: https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20040510/#rawsocket

(It observes that this feature raises certain security risks, but promises to figure out by the next draft how to fix them. This of course never happened.)

I recall Hixie had a funny rant about this, but I can't find it.

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1. bawolff ◴[09 Jul 25 01:34 UTC] No.44505553[source]▶
Thanks, i wasn't aware of that. That is crazy.