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I loved Flash, and I think that SVG, if I can create proper tools, has the potential to be as good and maybe to avoid some of the drawbacks.

In fact, I wrote Svija because I took a sabbatical from web design. When I came back, Flash was gone and I just couldn't stomach the idea of twenty years of HTML and CSS. So, SVG.

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The problem with SVG is that it performs terribly especially when compared with Flash. This site is relatively small and it's super slow on an i9

I wonder why that's the case. Flash was all vectors and could run really well once it reached maturity.

Is it because we're shoving the SVG into the dom or something? Or using expensive SVG features?

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