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

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by adrianhooves@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 75 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

More precisely, both are flavors of XML.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

technically HTML is not XML.. XHTML is, but HTML can be invalid XML.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Ok—to the extent that SVG is HTML, the variant of HTML that it is is a flavor of XML.

[–] Giloron@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It annoys me that you aren't supposed to close input tags. At least browsers tolerate self closing them even if it is out of spec.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Technically it's not browser tolerance but spec tolerance. It's built into the html5 spec to tolerate different tags closing and other things invalid in xml.

This was an important design that grew out of one of the largest failings of xhtml that such failures would make the entire page unrenderable.

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

HTML predates XML by several years.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Age doesn't matter. XML is a super-set of XHTML's spec.

That is - all XHTML is valid XML but not all XML is valid XHTML.

Note I'm saying XHTML not HTML since the later need not be valid XML.

[–] chtk@feddit.nl 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

XML is a super-set of XHTML's spec.

That's a weird way of saying XHTML is an application of XML.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

You can phrase it however you like?

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

...which is derived from SGML.