Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)

Posted by caminanteblanco 9/14/2025

Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)(svg.nicubunu.ro)

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behnamoh 9/14/2025|

At this point just bring back Flash...

It was so nice and unlocked so much creativity among early web developers. unfortunately Apple contributed to its demise

lpln3452 9/14/2025||

Flash did not disappear because of an unfortunate accident. It disappeared because Adobe was unwilling to fix its outdated system and rampant security flaws.

lucasverra 9/14/2025||||

Jobs, 2010 https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/steve-job...

hedora 9/14/2025|||

Anyone remember the flash-block plugins to keep browsers from auto rendering malicious flash content?

wslh 9/14/2025|||

For the web you can now use Cocos2d-x[1], Godot Engine[2], PixiJS[3], and/or Phaser[4].

[1] https://www.cocos.com/en/cocos2d-x

[2] https://godotengine.org/

[3] https://pixijs.com/

[4] https://phaser.io/

bob1029 9/14/2025||

Unity also has a very good pipeline for building webgl targets. You can virtually ignore the platform concern until the very end, as long as you aren't being ridiculous with real time lighting and texture resolution.

foofoo12 9/14/2025|||

I did wonder why they didn't just switch out actionscript for js and use plain html/svg/canvas. I'm kind of glad they didn't but I think there would have been money in doing so.

PaulHoule 9/14/2025||

Actually they did, Adobe still makes the Flash authoring tool but they call it Animate, it exports files that work with an HTML/JS player that does almost everything Flash did.

foofoo12 9/14/2025||

That was news to me!

papichulo2023 9/14/2025||

Why we would do that when canvas related apis support gpu acceleration?

eleumik 9/15/2025||

Why don't build a site with Lego then ? Meanwhile I am trying with bananas.

muglug 9/14/2025||

Ah, reminds me of Flash websites with SEO-indexable text.

xnx 9/15/2025||

Small typo: "stuf"

ascorbic 9/14/2025||

(2007)

arewethereyeta 9/14/2025||

isn't this basically what flutter does?

chrismorgan 9/15/2025|

No.

SVG is a proper part of the browser. You get native text rendering, real links, real text selection, stuff like that.

Flutter is pure-canvas. You get no accessibility (unless you duplicate everything, in which case why even bother?), fake links which don’t behave properly, incorrect text rendering, megabytes of overhead, slow startup, &c.

pbsurf 9/14/2025||

Another SVG website: https://styluslabs.com/

chrismorgan 9/14/2025||

Though Stylus Labs’ site is not pure SVG, but a collection of SVGs embedded in an HTML container, which makes life quite a bit easier (applying a page background and embedding a video iframe are easier, and proper sizing and centring the column is not otherwise possible without scripting).

p0w3n3d 9/14/2025||

awful readibility tbh, and not accessible at all I guess

whyandgrowth 9/14/2025||

Wow, I didn't know SVG was capable of that, the website looks like a HTML/CSS site from the 2000s, but it's still cool.

OneDeuxTriSeiGo 9/14/2025||

Yeah this is a big part of the reason SVGs are dangerous if treated like normal image files. They are basically equivalent to HTML w/ embedded CSS and can even execute javascript.

If you aren't careful they can be used for XSS and all kinds of nasty stuff.

They are also super useful in general though despite that.

ninetyninenine 9/14/2025|||

Svgs are capable of anything. You can draw anything with it as it’s just a format for vector graphics. The vectors can be manipulated so you can even make a 3D game engine from it if you wanted.

The only thing that separates it from html and css is that html and css biases towards website styled stuff. HTML is designed for text boxes and that kind of stuff while svgs bias more towards a neutral drawing medium: shapes and vectors.

So because it’s more neutral you can even make a html engine from svg if you so wanted.

Telemakhos 9/14/2025|||

There were some tools that let you do a lot of flash-type things using html5 and svg. I used Tumult Hype for an animation project a few years ago, but I don't think it ever became as popular as Flash.

panny 9/14/2025||

Now right click it and view source. SVG is just markup, same as HTML.

thenthenthen 9/14/2025||

Like, this SVG is just a Website! Props to the creator, loving this.