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by pete_b 4769 days ago
Why see it as negativity?

SVG is a core web standard that is woefully underused considering how well it is supported. These complex 'you can do this with CSS' demos are always impressive, but they have little practical use; considering the underuse and lack of knowledge about SVG right now, it seems a little perverse to me that people keep making them.
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DigitalSea 4769 days ago
Using SVG would be the easy way (open up Illustrator, draw some circles and export). As developers we should be pushing ourselves, trying the seemingly impossible and keeping our brains sharp. If developers all used pre-existing and practical solutions as I pointed out earlier, we would all still be making websites that used tables for mark-up.

This isn't a client project, it's an experiment. Brian has merely exhibited something using some DIV's and clever CSS that most developers would never even try to attempt let alone even be able to pull off. An experiment doesn't need to be cross-browser compliant or practical, it just needs to prove something can work.

I've used SVG in production before and while it's generally well supported if you don't care about IE8 support, when it comes to hyperlinking and hover states an SVG can be your worse nightmare. Tonnes of people know about SVG, anyone with a copy of Adobe Illustrator can make an SVG image for web and embed it into a page.

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pete_b 4768 days ago
As others have pointed out, well crafted or not, it doesn't add anything new to what people know can be done with CSS if you hack it hard enough; 5 years ago someone made a Homer Simpson in pure CSS (before border-radius) and it worked in IE 5.5: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/

If you think SVG is a craftless 'just export it' type of technology then you're not really getting it - it's xml - human readable and editable.

You get a lot more out of it if you know how to read the source, add/remove/alter the elements by hand if needs be. So plenty of valuable skills to develop, things to learn and opportuties for push yourself without resorting to yet another demonstration of how it's possible to simulate vector illustration if you apply copious amounts of divs and CSS.

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meerita 4768 days ago
You can do it manually. SVG is a XML file, just that. You can hand code all logos, wich it gonna be a waste of time in most cases.
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