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Users can view rendered Markdown by navigating to the tool and pasting content directly, or by pasting a URL to a CORS-friendly document or Gist.

The tool supports two primary input methods: direct pasting of Markdown or pasting a URL to a hosted Markdown file or Gist. ✦ AI generated

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The tool is very simple. Navigate to markdown-svg-renderer in your browser and paste in some Markdown to see it rendered... or save that Markdown to a CORS-friendly URL or a GitHub Gist and paste in a URL to that document.

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When Markdown contains an SVG block, the tool renders it as an interactive element accompanied by several tabs.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 80%

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provides context → The tool has evolved into the ideal solution for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog extends → 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 Weblog extends → 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 Weblog