> Why use a new format instead of SVG or JS+canvas? Because those are both hellaciously complex, and implementing a usable fraction of the functionality of eit

> Why use a new format instead of SVG or JS+canvas? Because those are both hellaciously complex, and implementing a usable fraction of the functionality of either is not a job for a single hobbyist programmer. At least, I don’t think they are — I could be wrong. Even if I am, the number of programmers who can write code to draw a line given a JSON description has to be orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude larger than the number who can write an XML parser, an SVG implementation, a Javascript parser and runtime or a canvas implementation.