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by ricardobeat 8 days ago
A vibe-coded, binary mashup of SMIL and web components. Interesting.

If the goal is self-contained documents, is there anything here that can’t be achieved with SVG alone, using SMIL [1] and embedded HTML via <foreignObject>? Or an existing engine like Rive?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Guides/SVG_...

1 comments

hey, yes.

1- html/css has more layout capabilities. 2- js 3- its a packing strategy. If you plan to serve images + svgs altogether, either you need to base64 encode or pack like hmml, binary