They are like PDFs in that they do not render the same with different software or on different devices.

Wowfunhappy 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I would say PDFs are actually reasonably consistent though. Weird things happen on occasion, but I've certainly had more success than with SVGs.

	▲	auxiliarymoose 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They are reasonably consistent because there is a de-facto reference implementation (Adobe Acrobat) which, if your implementation does not match exactly, users will think your implementation is broken. There isn't such an implementation for SVG.

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0x1ch 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We live in a world where Adobe set the standard, and anything that didn't render like Adobe was considered "incorrect".

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eek2121 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You definitely don't understand PDFs, let alone SVGs.

PDFs can also contain scripts. Many applications have had issues rendering PDFs.

Don't get me wrong, the folks creating the SVG standard should've used their heads. This is like the 5th time (that I am aware of) this type of issue has happened, (and at least 3 of them were Adobe). Allowing executable code in an image/page format shouldn't be a thing.