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You can do a lot of impressive things with SVGs. Some examples from Wikipedia (no JS in any) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/SMIL_missile_d
by unleaded 1y ago
You can do a lot of impressive things with SVGs. Some examples from Wikipedia (no JS in any)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/SMIL_missile_demo.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/SMIL_mis... missile command clone
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/London_Underground_Overground_DLR_Crossrail_map.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/London_U... tube map
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Rolling_shutter_SMIL.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Rolling_... rolling shutter animation
- johnisgood 1y agoI like https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/London_Underground_Overground_DLR_Crossrail_map.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/London_U.... It shows step-free areas for wheelchair users. It is pretty useful to me. As for the first link, I immediately had to come up with a way to click on the warheads programmatically. I saved the world! :D
- bombcar 1y agoAs an American I always forget that the ADA is kind of unique in the world. It would never even enter my mind that every single subway stop isn’t wheelchair accessible.
- leonidasv 1y agoSVG started as an open competitor to Shockwave/Flash Player and also an application format for PDAs. It almost got networking support once.
- echelon 1y agoToo bad nothing has ever come close to replacing the SWF format. You could pack so much into a single binary distributable media file. Games, videos, websites, infographics, tools, chat rooms. SWF was brilliant and it should have thrived.
- unleaded 1y agoabsolutely. really is strange that you used to be able to download a music video in less than 2-3mb with lossless video quality, but now that's not really a thing anymore. I feel like if Adobe didn't get greedy and encourage its use for absolutely everything (and/or web standards got up to speed faster) people wouldn't wouldn't approach talking about Flash with the 10-foot pole they often do today (as a platform—not how everyone talks about how much they loved flash games)
- viraptor 1y agoPeople loved the games, but not the super custom flash based menu that requires a loading bar and works totally different and slightly janky on each website.
- philsnow 1y agoA time before HIGs.. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/03/03/macromedia-flashdance https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/03/03/macromedia-fla...
- comex 1y agoWhat do you mean by “HD music video”? If you mean a literal video, then today’s video and audio codecs are more efficient than what Flash used, not less. If the music videos were that small then they must have given up a lot in quality. If you mean a Flash vector animation, then that’s different of course, but that doesn’t describe a typical music video.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoHuh? SVG stands for scalable vector graphics.
- FateOfNations 1y agoFunctionally, it can do a lot of the same things as SWF/Flash. Can do animations (see article) and it's scriptable using JavaScript for interactivity.
- tiagod 1y agoAnd JavaScript starts with Java. Naming is hard.
- immibis 1y agoAnd is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation, so you better not write it down anywhere or the lawnmower will get you.
- ToucanLoucan 1y agoThank fuck it didn't. I can't fathom how quickly the obnoxious advertiser industrial complex would've grabbed hold of that and invented whole new genres of shoving products in our collective face.
- baq 1y agoas opposed to today...?
- ToucanLoucan 1y agoLook I'm not saying they aren't doing it now I'm just saying one less vector for it makes me happy
- bawolff 1y ago> It almost got networking support once. SVG support full javascript. It has networking support. (In web browsers the <img> tag allows only restricted subset, butbyou get the full thing with iframe)
- ameliaquining 1y agoI think the above comment refers to the proposal for SVG 1.2 (which never shipped) to include an API for opening raw network sockets: https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20040510/#rawsocket https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20040510/#rawsocket (It observes that this feature raises certain security risks, but promises to figure out by the next draft how to fix them. This of course never happened.) I recall Hixie had a funny rant about this, but I can't find it.
- bawolff 1y agoThanks, i wasn't aware of that. That is crazy.
- Theodores 1y agoThat checkbox feature in the Tube Map is awesome. I need to up my SVG game. Bookmarked!
- Natsu 1y agoAfter reading the headline and before reading the article, I thought it'd be something like a visual hash of readme files, as an easy way to see if anything had changed between releases. I was thinking that might be a useful thing for people to spot when a ToS, EULA, etc. changed since those are long documents that frequently get sneaky revisions.
- lilyball 1y agoThat first link doesn't work in Safari, and I'm really wondering what's missing. Clicking the button works, but clicking the warheads does nothing. I also don't get the crosshairs cursors that I see when I try this in Firefox.
- terribleperson 1y agoI really like the timer display in that missile command clone. The animated numbers make it easy to keep time with it in your peripheral vision.