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I would imagine that arbitrary SVG rendering is harder to get right? With fonts you can probably cache a lot of the rendering (even considering things like lig

by rtpg 10y ago

I would imagine that arbitrary SVG rendering is harder to get right? With fonts you can probably cache a lot of the rendering (even considering things like ligatures), and considering how much text your machine is showing, the performance tricks could be extra useful.

valarauca1 10y ago
SVG standard includes JavaScript. So SVG renderers are very non-trivial to implement.
- posterboy 10y ago
  hilarious
  - kbenson 10y ago
    In a "laugh because the only other option is to break down and cry" sort of way, yes.
amelius 10y ago
> and considering how much text your machine is showing, the performance tricks could be extra useful Well, an SVG-based drawing program has to re-render a lot of the same SVG every time the user makes a little change. Also, when animating an SVG scene, a lot of the shapes are redrawn continuously.