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1. Zach Leatherman moments later

   11 year old thread continued from www.zachleat.com/twitter/1483...

2. Cory LaViska 2 min later

   how would this work without introducing vector editing tools? I guess you could open/paste an SVG and it could ask for dimensions but that seems pretty awkward

   1. Zach Leatherman 6 min later

      Editing wouldn’t need to be part of an MVP feature (in my humble opinion)—or just convert to raster if folks edit

3. Michael 5 min later

   decorativegourdseason.com is made with @11ty.dev

   1. Zach Leatherman 6 min later

      *WHAT*

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         1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

            oh my gourd

4. LocNar1701 26 min later

   well, no, Apple didn't invent/shape/benefit from that format.

   #theAppleWay

5. leah 🛸 46 min later

   at least you can preview SVGs with quicklook if you have inkscape installed

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      that quicklook support is all the more confusing 🫠

6. PolyglotProg 1 hr later

   ... Yes it can.. an SVG is a text file (more specifically an XML file). An SVG only supplies instructions for a canvas.. its not an image file why would preview open it?

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      excuse me

      1. PolyglotProg 1 hr later

         You are excused.. but yes an SVG is not an image file per se.. its an XML instruction set. Which makes it different that other rasterized images, as well as different from other vector based image formats. SVG is a format that describes the image it wants to make, it isn't the image itself.

         1. Jeff Chausse 1 hr later

            Isn’t every image file a description of how to make an image?

            1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

               before we go down that road (and for the record), Preview isn’t limited to “image files”

               1. PolyglotProg 2 hr later

                  No... that is absolutely correct. But given that preview works as a rasterized display window, that is both highly simplistic and entirely naive, I wouldn't expect it to be able to display things that are indeterminate like SVGs and the like. Or if they did display them.. only display them as text

                  1. PolyglotProg 2 hr later

                     You have to also remember that using SVGs as stand-in's for rasterized images, is also not how SVGs were intended to be used in the first place.. they are just also really good at doing that as well.

            2. PolyglotProg 2 hr later

               Nope.. bitmap images contain both the canvas in the form of a resolution, as well as the individual pixel data. The computer that is rendering it has to make no determination as to how to do that, as it isn't an instruction, its a self-contained image.

               1. Jeff Chausse 2 hr later

                  Be all that as it may, it’s both something users expect to be able to do, and something Apple certainly could do technically. Semantics are rarely good criteria for making product feature decisions.

                  1. PolyglotProg 2 hr later

                     LOL... thats Apple's bag baby!... Yes it is entirely possible to do.. but I don't see it happening if I am honest. Most of us that work with SVGs generally do so from the text.. not from any sort of graphical editor.. especially given the fact that most SVGs are dynamically created.

7. Eric Bailey 1 hr later

   open document files? next thing you know you’ll want AutoCAD

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      AI is an auto cad

      1. Eric Bailey 1 hr later

         fair

8. Large Heydon Collider 3 hr later
   1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

      /remindme the year 2083

9. Amberley Romo 3 hr later

   the year of decorative gourds 😆

10. uncommon-sense.bsky.social 3 hr later

    Macs are bad, if apple can't make money from it, they don't do it

    1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

       that’s not my experience—was just thinking about I have an iPad Mini from 2015 that I still use regularly

       1. uncommon-sense.bsky.social 3 hr later

          It is mine 🤷‍♀️

          1. uncommon-sense.bsky.social 3 hr later

             I still use my nc10 from 2008 running a lovely version of Debian

11. Kent 3 hr later

    Couldn't you open it with any browser instead?

    1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

       yep

12. Christian Alder 20 hr later

    It's a pain. I'm just glad they show up (small) in the Finder preview pane. *squints intensify*

    1. Zach Leatherman 21 hr later

       quicklook but no preview whyyyyyyy