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I want a “SVG lite” standard that’s essentially just the path attribute specified in a standalone standard – it’s by far the most valuable part of SVG and deserves “liberation” from an otherwise very large and complex spec

If combined with a couple of other basic operations on top, like in Android’s VectorDrawable, then it’s pretty much all that one need for most things

12/5/25, 6:53 pm0 reposts0 likes

CSS by T. Afif

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I am not understanding what you mean exactly but if you meant SVG alone is enough to do most of the things then let me tell you that for me it's very very limited and it fails to achieve (at least in a flexible way) most of the things I want.

gist.github.comMe and ChatGPT drafting a minimal SVG spec, drawing inspiration from VectorDrawable and TinyVGMe and ChatGPT drafting a minimal SVG spec, drawing inspiration from VectorDrawable and TinyVG - 0-svg-nano.md

I collaborated a bit with ChatGPT to flesh out the ideas: gist.github.com/voxpelli/e7c... I do not mean that SVG is enough, rather that the path element should be allowed to shine on its own as it can do stuff like what you are pointing out :)

CSS by T. Afif

@css-only.dev

path cannot do what I want. The converter I am sharing is not the goal of using shape(), it's a tool to help with more complex stuff I want to achieve. See the Spec to understand why shape() was created: drafts.csswg.org/css-shapes-2...