If you have a lot of "images" with such effects to generate from dynamic text, using SVG makes no sense, is vastly more complex and less flexible than the solution here.
You don't generate images, you just embed SVG nodes in the DOM. From the browser's perspective SVG and HTML elements are just two different types of element.
SVG is not great for text - HTML has more features - but for display text it's OK.
Art is often made from clever use of things that were not intended to make art. Let them have fun.
Too late: https://codepen.io/jaysalvat/pen/kazzOj
The article literally says "it's not well-suited for production usage" so I don't really see the reason for the objection here. It's an experiment.
If you have a lot of "images" with such effects to generate from dynamic text, using SVG makes no sense, is vastly more complex and less flexible than the solution here.
You don't generate images, you just embed SVG nodes in the DOM. From the browser's perspective SVG and HTML elements are just two different types of element.
SVG is not great for text - HTML has more features - but for display text it's OK.
I would think that quite a few powerful new ideas have come purely from abusing and bashing around older ideas.
This could actually be cool for display text like a headline. I don’t think that’s only for images.