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📣 taivare

Is SVG Dying?


Is SVG Dying?


  👤 lioeters Accepted Answer ✓
Alive and kicking. SVG is often requested (or just included) as part of design assets; used for icons/logos/illustrations/charts/diagrams on the web; programmatically generated or manipulated (i.e., animation).. Language ecosystems usually have choices of parsers (less so renderers)..

👤 mdorazio
Not sure what context you're referring to, but SVG is heavily used for displaying scalable logos and charts on the web. It's also heavily used for vector-based graphics and outputs to machines (ex. laser cutting) due to its relative simplicity and openness.

👤 brokenwren
Why would it be dying? If anything, most companies are using it more. I'd like to see a binary format for SVG to make them smaller but keep the scalability.

👤 JMTQp8lwXL
I don't think so. It's used heavily by D3. There are many useful applications of SVG for rendering on the web.