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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: 0.208s | 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.

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lpghatguy ◴[08 Jul 25 19:18 UTC] No.44503120[source]▶
Once upon a time, Flash, Java, Silverlight, ActiveX, etc. ruled the web.

I think the world is _much_ better off today, with a common language and platform. I don't think those big third party runtimes could survive in the browser in today's threat environment.

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1. exabrial ◴[09 Jul 25 15:16 UTC] No.44511060[source]▶
Unfortunately "common" means being what Google wants, and they abuse their market position to push whatever through (advertising support in an HTML client... what?)