Show HN: Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations

Post by nbe » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 1:06 PM UTC

Post by michaelmior » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:03 PM UTC

Post by transitivebs » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:07 PM UTC

fsiefken wrote: post #4

Excellence! The README reads: "I really like the clean look of SVG animations and I also wanted to see how this solution would hold out against other attempts at terminal recording such as asciinema." But how does it compare? Is the size smaller, is it more efficient?

Post by cirowrc » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:17 PM UTC

transitivebs wrote: post #5

fsiefken wrote: post #4

Excellence! The README reads: "I really like the clean look of SVG animations and I also wanted to see how this solution would hold out against other attempts at terminal recording such as asciinema." But how does it compare? Is the size smaller, is it more efficient?

Animated SVG animations (really just an svg element + animated css) are significantly smaller, more efficient, and crisper than equivalent GIF animations. I wrote about the difference between the two here: https://hackernoon.com/presenting-your-code-beautifully-fdba... As I explained in the above article, this is already possible with asciinema + svg-term-cli ( https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli ). The one dow…

Post by cnlwsu » Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

okket wrote: post #2

The example animation looks broken in Safari (including Tech Preview 59), works in Chrome 67 (of course), and in Firefox 61. [Edit: This seems to be a macOS/driver bug affecting only some models]