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Patrick Brosset
@patrickbrosset.com

What's missing from SVG on the web? 🔵 Styling external SVGs 🔵 SVG/CSS integration 🔵 Text layout 🔵 Performance 🔵 Better animations 🔵 Responsive sizing/scaling 🔵 Better reuse 🔵 Programmability and geometry ergonomics 🔵 Interoperability and evolution 🔵 Accessibility

patrickbrosset.comPatrick - What's missing from SVGI asked around and analyzed a few different sources of developer signals on the topic of SVG, and here are the recurring themes I found.

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oli
@oliverjam.com

Cross-origin <use>. We want to use an icon spritesheet, but all our assets are hosted on a CDN on another subdomain. Tbh we only want the sprite so the icons can use currentcolor, so styling external SVGs might be the real solution.

Patrick Brosset
@patrickbrosset.com

Styling external SVG is definitely a big gap. But it’s also getting filled! The solution is a new standard called Linked Parameters. And it’s getting implemented in Chromium, and also Firefox I believe.

Rasmus Fløe
@phloe.co

Consistent filter support across browsers. And when they do work - have better performance when using more than 1 filter at a time. Filters have oodles of rendering bugs in Chrome on wide gamut displays 😞 (on srgb/etc - no problems 🤷)