FAQ - Why is SVG its native format?

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With recent developments, we’ve realized that relying on SVG and the DOM poses challenges, particularly with performance and limitations in the aging SVG 1.1 standard. Learn more about this here:

It's time for Penpot to (almost) move away from the DOM

This will yield massive improvements on performance while respecting interoperability. As Open Source fans and product builders, we have always believed in the idea of standing on the shoulders of giants and being completely transparent about how we’re building Penpot and why. [penpot cover] When we started building our open source design & prototyping tool a few years ago, we made a very smart decision: we offloaded all the visual rendering hard work to the browser. This allowed us to focus …