Tuesday, July 11, 2023

svg for you and me

Making the rounds, a really nice deep dive into SVG. It reminds me of the old Logo programming language, where a little turtle (generally virtual but they also had small robots you could buy) would scoot around.

I think SVG expertise is a really interesting boundary of design and dev. A designer might generate an SVG with little idea of how much like a little computer program it is (heh - an svg file is like a computer program as source, a png or jpeg is more like computer program as a binary file.) But a dev often won't have a feel for how that program relates to the curves and lines that went into making it.

(On a more pragmatic note, this article argues for SVG icon sprite sheets as being the best blend of performance and flexibility in React)

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