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by martijn_himself 187 days ago
>They are supported on just about every device and platform

Except they aren't. I recently used a simple SVG in a background and Safari wasn't able to render it properly so after trying lots of different things I gave up and used different sizes of raster images instead.
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stanac 187 days ago
SVGs also are mostly unsupported for og:image tags (dependents on the app/browser). I know it's supper specific and I am not even sure if open graph is standardized protocol or not, but it's used everywhere.
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airstrike 187 days ago
yeah, I was super disappointed to find that out when I built previews for https://hexrgb.pages.dev
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avsm 187 days ago
What was the SVG that didn't work? In Jon's example in the original post, the SVG he embeds there was one he wrote in around 2005. That's a pretty impressive run for it to render 20 years on...
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SoKamil 187 days ago
They are also not supported on iOS native apps. We use pdfs for vectors.
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