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Considering how sluggish web applications are, please no.

If you really want to, you can run Inkscape in the browser the same way Figma runs in the browser: compile it to WASM.

I'm currently working on WebKit support in Boxy SVG (https://boxy-svg.com/ideas/95) and SVG rendering performance seems to be actually better than in Inkscape - especially when transforming many objects simultaneously and when manipulating objects with filters applied.

Igalia has made some massive improvements to the SVG engine in WebKit recently: https://wpewebkit.org/blog/05-new-svg-engine.html

You’re being downvoted but honestly Inkscape suffers a bit when put up against some nastier SVGs. Chrome handles them alright though

Granted I've not checked recently, I want to say this was pre-Blink, but Safari (iOS and OSX) struggled massively with SVGs that Firefox and Chrome handled with ease – maps in my case. If we're at the point where Safari is finally faster than Inkscape that's great news, although I still don't want a browser based utility.

The new SVG renderer in WebKit makes it the fastest of the 3. Not yet finished though.

Thank you for building Boxy SVG, it's a wonderful tool, very fast and easy to use.

Ironically, the ideas/95 URL doesn't work in Safari.

"Error - can't load the page (unsupported web browser)"

There's nothing that says a web app has to be sluggish. You don't need an entire chromium instance to run a single web app. Web views are usually more performant, but have the issues of compatibility (Chromium vs Firefox vs WebKit), but it still seems worth it to me.

There's nothing that says that of course, but my RAM says fooey to webapping a tool like Inkscape. I use it almost every day, I just finished using it to make a poster where I needed to print out a hi-res background with text that would be in juuuuust the right position for me to use my typewriter to type on it and have that text end up in exactly the right place, then scanned that at 1200dpi and used inkscape to crop and export the final piece.

I do not think my browser is ready for an 8000x8000 raster image with svg clipping etc. Not to mention the ungodly large bitmap traces, with hundreds of thousands of nodes...

A browser tool like Inkscape would be cool and useful. But no replacement.

Running a simple todo list app these days destroys my mac’s battery life because of the Chrome shit. Wen apps are like drugs: Just Say No!

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