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Sebastiaan Deckers
November 19, 2014
Programming
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SVG Reality
Talk at CSSConf.asia 2014
http://2014.cssconf.asia/
Sebastiaan Deckers
November 19, 2014
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Transcript
REALITY SVG REALITY SVG SVG REALITY
1024×768 1024×768 1024×768
OMG×FML OMG×FML OMG×FML
FIT FIT FIT
HiDPI HiDPI HiDPI
LoDPI LoDPI LoDPI
STRETCH STRETCH STRETCH
ONE DIV?! ONE DIV?! ONE DIV?!
RUBE GOLDBERG CSS RUBE GOLDBERG CSS RUBE GOLDBERG CSS
SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS
None
SEBASTIAAN DECKERS SEBASTIAAN DECKERS SEBASTIAAN DECKERS FRONT END DEVELOPER AT
COFOUNDERS.SG FRONT END DEVELOPER AT COFOUNDERS.SG FRONT END DEVELOPER AT COFOUNDERS.SG
FRONT END DEVS SG FRONT END DEVS SG FRONT END
DEVS SG
SVG vs CSS SVG vs CSS SVG vs CSS HiDPI
Animations Hardware Acceleration Blending Modes Responsive Media Queries Debugging Inspector Filters DOM API Scripting Colour Profiles
USAGE USAGE USAGE
Native support for inline <svg/>
CSS url(image.svg)
SVG FONTS DEPRECATED COMEBACK? SVG FONTS DEPRECATED COMEBACK? SVG FONTS
DEPRECATED COMEBACK?
SVG FRAGMENTS SVG FRAGMENTS SVG FRAGMENTS
USAGE SVG Building Blocks SVG Building Blocks SVG Building Blocks
= CSS 2.1 UNITS = CSS 2.1 UNITS UNITS =
CSS 2.1
BASIC SHAPES
Paths <path> Text based drawing instructions for line, arc, bezier
curve, quadratic curve, etc. Use an editor! Inkscape, Sketch, Illustrator
Embedded images <image> with xlink:href="foobar.{png,jpeg, gif,webp,svg}" or Base64 encoded
And more... Groups, Patterns, Transformations, References, ...
SVG DOM SVG DOM SVG DOM
XMLNS XMLNS XMLNS svgns = “http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” document.createElementNS(svgns, …) document.setAttributeNS document.getElementsByTagNameNS
API WRAPPERS API WRAPPERS API WRAPPERS
WEB COMPONENTS WEB COMPONENTS WEB COMPONENTS document.registerElement('my-shape', { extends: 'circle',
prototype: Object.create( SVGCircleElement.prototype, {/*...*/} ) })
CSS & SVG CSS & SVG CSS & SVG
INLINE IN SVG CASCADING IN SVG CASCADING IN HTML EXTERNAL
FROM SVG INLINE IN SVG CASCADING IN SVG CASCADING IN HTML EXTERNAL FROM SVG
Tips & Tricks Tips & Tricks Tips & Tricks
viewBox min-x min-y width height
preserveAspectRatio preserveAspectRatio POOR MAN’S BG-SIZE preserveAspectRatio X/Y min/mid/max, slice/keep X/Y
min/mid/max, slice/keep X/Y min/mid/max, slice/keep POOR MAN’S BG-SIZE POOR MAN’S BG-SIZE
None
MAX SIZE MAX SIZE MAX SIZE Infinite resolution, but Maximum
±5 megapixels
SVGOptimizer SVGOptimizer SVGOptimizer also as {grunt,gulp}-svgmin also as {grunt,gulp}-svgmin also
as {grunt,gulp}-svgmin
BUT WAIT... BUT WAIT... BUT WAIT...
ANIMATION SMIL & JS ANIMATION SMIL & JS ANIMATION SMIL
& JS
SVG 1.2 SVG 2 SVG 1.2 SVG 2 SVG 1.2
SVG 2
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU