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andsoitis • today at 5:14 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

> Curious if Animated SVGs are also a thing.

Yes. Relevant animation elements:

• <set>

• <animate>

• <animateTransform>

• <animateMotion>

See https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/svg_animation.asp

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shakna • today at 6:41 AM

Slightly related, I recently hit on this SVG animation bug in Chrome (that someone else found):

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/an-annoying-svg-animation-b...

albert_e • today at 6:25 AM

Oh TIL - Thanks!

This could possibly be used to build full fledged games like pong and breakout :)

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mattigames • today at 5:37 AM

Overshadowed by CSS animations for almost all use cases.

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