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I'm just learning JS and P5.play - possibly a daft question why is using SVG useful over say just an emoji/text?

It's interesting (to me) in this specific example because it generates a favicon using SVG + emoji. I wasn't aware that could be done. Favicons can't be simple enoji/text, they have to be an image.

big thanks for the reply

the grid is made up of <p> fields, I thought you just could replace the sqiggly line (background) with an emoji/text using the right font etc instead of svg/emoji

No worries. And yes, but that's not what I'm taking about :) I was interested in the favicon, which is the icon shown in the (desktop) browser tab.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

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