[Theodores]

I have gone in deep with SVG, rendering them inline with backend code that embeds locale specific text and hyperlinks. I am a big fan of 'use' and sprite-sheets. SVG everywhere is what I like, in fact I prefer to embed a PNG in SVG rather than using native images.

I also prefer to work in SVG directly, i.e. not with some export from an Adobe product. Inkscape is helpful at times but normally it is much easier to do one's own primitives than to have some path that does a circle in however many points. It is great when you can do something like an Instagram icon in four lines of SVG (including colour gradients) than the 1.4Mb EPS file provided in their brand resources.

I do scour the web for things in SVG that are to my personal standards of doing it, i.e. cruft free with a sensible viewbox etc. Yet rarely do I find anything that is that good. It is like the difference between HTML and MS Word documents exported to HTML, with proprietary tags etc.

I do not work too well with the graphics team I work with when it comes to SVG - they are still in the print era and not on the same page as me. They are no more able to work with SVG than the Office Manager is able to make the leap from MS Word to editing HTML in 'vi'.

Regarding usability, for 'supported browsers' (no IE 9-) SVG is great. A year ago I would not have thought that.

For us programmer types SVG is accessible, for graphics guys it isn't really. This I like as I can work with my frontend developer on SVG and not really need 'assets' from the graphics guys still stuck with GUI desktop publishing software that should have been left in the 90's where it belongs.

[p0nce]

Hey I like SVG too, even doing logos by hand with it. To this purpose I've created this: http://www.gamesfrommars.fr/live-svg-editor/ I have trouble making SVG use each other reliably though.