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chrismorgan on Oct 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials

SVG is good. SVG is well-supported, though for the oldest browsers you’d still want PNG. Server-side user-agent detection would work fine for that.

dawnerd on Oct 7, 2017 [–]

Honest question, is anyone building new apps and actually care about older browsers? We’re using svg for everything now and haven’t run into a problem with support.

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