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SVG is a strange combination of really bloated and not easily human readable. Try to make sense of shape data sometime. I'd expected a XML list of points but it
by donatj 10y ago
SVG is a strange combination of really bloated and not easily human readable. Try to make sense of shape data sometime. I'd expected a XML list of points but it's nothing that clear, it's a string of letters and numbers as an attribute of a tag. It may very well be readable if you learn the language but it's certainly not self describing as I would have expected from an XML format.
- userbinator 10y agoI'd expected a XML list of points but it's nothing that clear, it's a string of letters and numbers as an attribute of a tag It's like they actually noticed how much more bloat would result from making each point an element, so instead they just decided to dump what is essentially bastardised PDF/PostScript path data into an attribute. The "language" also doesn't match PDF exactly, despite using a similar style of short 1-letter commands. Compare: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html http://www.websupergoo.com/helppdfnet/source/4-examples/17-advancedgraphics.htm http://www.websupergoo.com/helppdfnet/source/4-examples/17-a...