If it was JPG or PNG, you could not select the text, embed links, or reuse parts of the page. And nobody could copy the source code to make the web a better place.

When someone says that SVG is just a big image — well, that is not always the case.

We have gone to great lengths to preserve text as text, to preserve images as images, and to use regular links.

That is why we require Adobe Illustrator — it's the only SVG-capable editor that allows for real text and images.

If you look at the source for a Svija page, it's a mess — but it does look like web page source.