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I'm going to sound like Richard Stallman, but being human-readable and Notepad-accessible is a huge advantage for SVG compared to this and its binary nature.
by Dalewyn 4y ago
I'm going to sound like Richard Stallman, but being human-readable and Notepad-accessible is a huge advantage for SVG compared to this and its binary nature.
- ianburrell 4y agoI think there is a place for rich text and compact binary formats. Then can pre-render from complicated source to produce smaller and faster binary format. You would edit the SVG and then make TinyVG (and minified SVG). SVG is weird among image format in that it is XML. It requires a lot of effort to parse and render.
- detrites 4y agoYou may have missed that it has both a binary and a text version.
- montag 4y agoYes, but the text version is "not required to be implemented by conforming implementations". The wrong tradeoff, in my opinion.
- detrites 4y agoIt's optional, so if the need you identified exists it will be implemented. Its essential selling-point is compactness, so being the target, the path of least resistance should be optionally allowing the text-form, not building around it.
- rcoveson 4y agoWhat does "Notepad-accessible" mean? Surely you're not referring to notepad.exe in a sentence beginning with "I'm going to sound like Richard Stallman"?