Comment by Viktor Köves on "I am Sarah Drasner. Ask me anything."

Hi Victor!

I think there's some confusion here. SVG animations are usually using an SVG in tandem with CSS and JavaScript, they aren't separate concerns. SMIL (the native SVG animation spec) doesn't have a good promise of support so people rarely reach for it anymore.

SVGs can indeed be more performant than bitmap animations such as .gifs, in fact, you can save many many megabytes by switching to SVG, and they can be accessible to boot. Heather Migliorisi wrote a great article on SVG accessibility for CSS-Tricks, you should definitely check it out!

https://css-tricks.com/accessible-svgs/

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