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by HugoDaniel 3444 days ago
Because people who write SVG's usually don't know about the viewBox property[0]. They just use illustrator to draw the shape and then export it.

[0]https://sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-coordinate-systems/
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wott 3444 days ago
> They just use illustrator to draw the shape and then export it.

You're lucky. Last designer I asked to provide a SVG image had obviously exported from a vector drawing tool to a bitmap, AND THEN converted to SVG. So you kinda had a whole SVG object for each pixel.

It never occurred to him that a 40 MB SVG file might indicate a problem (when the point of having a vector format was partly to save memory).

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justinjlynn 3444 days ago
I think your designer may have taken "pixel perfect" a little too literally.
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HugoDaniel 3443 days ago
Lots of <rect>'s in that SVG :D

I wonder how big can the SVG DOM be in browsers before things start to get painfully slow

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