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I've said it before, I'll say it again: the web needed a vector answer to jpeg, but what we got was a vector answer to html+css with all their commensurate vulnerabilities and complexities.



The other major web vector format...

is PDF. Yeah, PDF has drawing commands. Most vector formats are based on command sequences, that map 1-1 with what you'd find in a drawing library like Cairo. EPS and PDF both work that way, which makes it even more of a typical vector format than SVG (which only does the command sequence thing with paths, AFAIK). Of course, it's not that well supported (the in-browser reader does who-knows-what to get it to render, I think it's converted to DOM elements), but it is the other major browser-supported vector format.




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