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“SVG is so complex that different implementations of SVG disagree how an image should look.”

Felix Queißnerzig.news ↗

To draw an SVG you need an XML parser, a CSS engine and, in theory, JavaScript. Firefox and Chrome still render the same five-line file differently. TinyVG keeps shapes, colours and gradients and drops the rest. A vector format that needs a browser engine to display an icon was never simple.