Selectable and more importantly searchable text is one of the reasons why I occasionally open Large SVG diagrams in browser instead of the usual image viewer.

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lpln3452 2 days ago | parent [-]

Right. I'd always just seen SVG as an image format. Interesting that browsers treat text inside them just like plain text.

	▲	leptons 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You can actually embed HTML inside an SVG using the foreignObject element.
	▲	DrewADesign 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I’ve done some cool things with the built-in SMIL animation too. You can control it with JavaScript and CSS… Watch out for the filters though — they can be pretty heavy compute-wise.
	▲	wild_egg 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean, it is just plain text inside some XML tags. It'd be weirder if they treated it like text in a photo