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500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format
Haiku uses a custom vector image format to store icons. This is surprising both because most OSes consider bitmaps to be totally sufficient to represent icons and because there are plenty of vector graphics formats out this (e.g. SVG). The goal of the Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF) is to make vector icon files as…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2016 | 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format by luu | 265 | 81 |
| Feb 20, 2020 | 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016) by cosmojg | 265 | 91 |
| Apr 29, 2024 | 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016) by smartmic | 145 | 41 |
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