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An SVG is all you need

(jon.recoil.org)
258 points sadiq | 6 comments | 11 Dec 25 19:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.264s | source | bottom
1. martijn_himself ◴[11 Dec 25 20:45 UTC] No.46236911[source]▶
>They are supported on just about every device and platform

Except they aren't. I recently used a simple SVG in a background and Safari wasn't able to render it properly so after trying lots of different things I gave up and used different sizes of raster images instead.

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2. avsm ◴[11 Dec 25 20:53 UTC] No.46236993[source]▶
What was the SVG that didn't work? In Jon's example in the original post, the SVG he embeds there was one he wrote in around 2005. That's a pretty impressive run for it to render 20 years on...
3. stanac ◴[11 Dec 25 21:34 UTC] No.46237473[source]▶
SVGs also are mostly unsupported for og:image tags (dependents on the app/browser). I know it's supper specific and I am not even sure if open graph is standardized protocol or not, but it's used everywhere.
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4. airstrike ◴[11 Dec 25 21:48 UTC] No.46237666[source]▶
yeah, I was super disappointed to find that out when I built previews for https://hexrgb.pages.dev
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6. SoKamil ◴[11 Dec 25 22:11 UTC] No.46237957[source]▶
They are also not supported on iOS native apps. We use pdfs for vectors.