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The tool has evolved into the ideal solution for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents.
The speaker asserts that the markdown-svg-renderer has evolved to become the ideal tool for handling Markdown with embedded SVGs. ✦ AI generated
Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-16 · original ↗
It's evolved into my ideal tool for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents. Given my proclivity for drawing pelicans riding bicycles this is a problem that I needed to solve!
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- ·Evolved into ideal tool for sharing Markdown transcripts
- ·Handles Markdown with embedded SVG documents seamlessly
- ·Solves Simon Willison's pelican-bicycle drawing problem
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extends → When Markdown contains an SVG block, the tool renders it as an interactive element accompanied by several tabs.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Webloggives example → The PNG and JPEG tabs allow users to render the SVG to image formats and download them, enabling sharing on platforms that do not natively support SVG.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblogsupports → The PNG and JPEG tabs allow users to render the SVG to image formats and download them, enabling sharing on platforms that do not natively support SVG.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Webloggives example → The new MP4 tab analyzes animated SVGs, renders frames, and uses ffmpeg.wasm to compile them into a video file entirely within the browser.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblogprovides context → When Markdown contains an SVG block, the tool renders it as an interactive element accompanied by several tabs.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog