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today i learned: svg files are just text in an html-like language (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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what the heck!! that is so wild, mind blowing, i thought the main difference between raster graphics and vector graphics was the quality but i didn't think about it too deeply.

i had no idea svg files actually used html code and pretty much could be modified using only text and amazing code woa!!! this opens up the possibility for so many things on linux i think.

for example, on a linux distro, we could modify the desktop environment and make it waaaaay lighter by getting rid of jpg or png icons and just using pure svg on it.

svg can be given a lot of attributes like movement, mouse hovering, change color, change anything. and most svg files are still under a megabyte. wow.. please let me know other fun facts about svg or eps files. i really like doing graphic design on linux and inkscape.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it would be lighter, SVGs need a rendering tool to read the code and draw the artwork for the vector based images. This has always been slower than just displaying a bmp, jpg, or PNG.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's lighter in memory. on android (development) it has been said for a few years now that it's better to use them for most cases, because android apps tend to use a ton of icons and this way they are small, themable, scaleable (the other option is to include multiple versions with diff resolutions), and can even have animations. it can basically save a lot of space.

but of course that will make no difference when the apps are 180 MB, partly because of the same 30 MB native libs being bundled for 4 different CPU architectures, because wasteful the dev didn't bother to produce different APKs for the different kinds of CPUs. and similar project mismanagement things.