On: Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)

[Karliss]

Selectable and more importantly searchable text is one of the reasons why I occasionally open Large SVG diagrams in browser instead of the usual image viewer.

[lpln3452 → Karliss]

Right. I'd always just seen SVG as an image format. Interesting that browsers treat text inside them just like plain text.

[leptons → lpln3452]

You can actually embed HTML inside an SVG using the foreignObject element.

[DrewADesign → lpln3452]

I’ve done some cool things with the built-in SMIL animation too. You can control it with JavaScript and CSS… Watch out for the filters though — they can be pretty heavy compute-wise.

[wild_egg → lpln3452]

I mean, it is just plain text inside some XML tags. It'd be weirder if they treated it like text in a photo