I can probably clarify my ignorance on wikipedia, but I am interested in the hackernews personality, and hope that I'll learn more about it here. Does all of t

I can probably clarify my ignorance on wikipedia, but I am interested in the hackernews personality, and hope that I'll learn more about it here. Does all of this apply to HTML5 animations, too? Are there tools that are HTML5-animations/SVG agnostic? They seem like they could be closely related, or easily confused.