When requirements read “when visible” your brain should go straight to IntersectionObserver. That’s exactly what Zach is doing here to kick off an animation when it scrolls into view.
Except this animation is an SVG SMIL animation: an <animate>…
While learning Vue.js, I started building free web tools that involved the exploration of SVG, with the goal of learning something about both! Let’s take a look at one of those tools: a generator that makes SVG loaders and …
This post was written after Chrome published an intent to deprecate SMIL in 2015. Fast-forward to 2023, and it appears that it never actually happened. Not only that, but we have seen Microsoft’s Edge browser merge with Chromium, …
Even though animating SVG with CSS might be more comfortable for the average front-end person, SVG has another way do animation built right into the SVG syntax itself. This is exactly what we cover in brief in this video, but …
The following is a guest post by Sara Soueidan. Sara has a knack for digging deep into web features and explaining the heck out of them for the rest of us. Here she digs into SMIL (and friends), and …
