[michaelbuddy]

Funny how svgs are last year when they havent nearly been tapped for their potential across the web yet. I have no desire to draw graphics with code. I appreciate innovation and experiments but I don't know it just looks like trying to make a tool work because you were too stubborn or didn't want to buy the right one

[ygra]

I have lots of desire to draw graphics with code, but SVG still fits that quite well.

As for the author's point that he needed to animate the logo ... SVG2 works on unifying CSS and SVG animation. Currently the options are either SMIL (which won't work in IE) or JS (which may have other unpleasant properties).

Interestingly, most things coming from CSS (not just animation) are quite inferior to what SVG already provided. That's there will be unification is mostly a concession to the fact that things haven't been implemented by browser vendors historically and users seem to like CSS solutions better than SVG these days.

[bitL]

In addition, Web Animations that are supposed to replace SVG SMIL can't even animate basic transforms (rotate, scale, translate, skew) independently as they are based on CSS and inherited all its limitations. Imagine you need to set a different easing to rotation than to rescaling (which is a totally basic thing in animation). Good luck with that in CSS and upcoming Web Animations...

[notNow]

Not to pick on the author of this mini-tutorial but this is a completely futile exercise as can be seen by the accompanying diagram outlining the building blocks of his endeavor which was a raster graphics not HTML/CSS as he preached.

You would think he would put his money where his mouth is and convert all the diagrams and vector graphics into HTML/CSS but deep down he knows it's just ridiculous and excruciatingly impractical.

[josephluck]

He did, it's here: www.itseffortless.com